Re: Server err

[Nils Philippsen <nils wombat dialup fht-esslingen de>]

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 MartyFisher1@cs.com wrote:

> So, the attached file shows the server error that I am getting when logging 
> into gnome as root.  I can log in as another ok as well as doing an su to 
> root from the other user's shell.

The last lines in the attachment show that X fails to contact the font
server. On Red Hat Linux, you can check if your xfs is running with:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs status

YMMV on another distro.

I don't know why it doesn't work as root, but as other users.

Nils
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