RE: gdm exiting w/ "Fatal X Error"... help?

[Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc cu-portland edu>]

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Have you taken a look at /etc/X11/XF86Config?  Specifically look at
the fonts section, and the paths that specified there.  Then make
sure that XFS is running when you first boot the machine.  You could
also check to make sure that xfs is getting it's fonts from
somewhere.  Assuming that those are correct, somebody else will have
to take a stab at it.  
	Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zacharias J. Beckman [mailto:zbeckman@creativesun.com]
> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 1999 1:51 PM
> To: Jacob Berkman
> Subject: Re: gdm exiting w/ "Fatal X Error"... help?
> 
> 
> > 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 -  
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