> Can you run X/startx fine from the console? Not succesfully. But, this did generate lots of information. It culminated in the following: ... (**) FontPath set to "unix/:-1" ... This surprised me; that's kind of an odd port. Is it right? I suppose so, since the xfs startup script in /etc/rc.d confirms it, with "-port -1" on the command line. ... [lots more stuff about the SVGA config, looks OK...] _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). ... And that's it. I did a little more research, and found that coincident with these problems the xfs server seems to have developed a problem. Here's what it says from messages: ... Dec 4 11:40:16 ra xfs: Fatal font server error: Dec 4 11:40:16 ra xfs: Cannot establish any listening sockets Dec 4 11:40:16 ra xfs: xfs startup succeeded ... The last line is bogus. If I do a 'ps' for xfs it's not there; seems to have died outright. I'm still stuck--I can't imagine what would have changed on the system to cause this kind of a problem... possibly something prior to the reboot, but to my recollection we weren't fiddling with the X server (we were fiddling with hard discs, enstead). Any ideas? Your time and help are very appreciated! Thanks... -- Zacharias J. Beckman - zbeckman@creativesun.com - (U.S.) 305-281-8701 Creative Sun Inc., Publishing for the Internet - http://www.creativesun.com Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. -- Theodore Roosevelt
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