Re: Gnome broke.

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

This indicates that X can't connect to the font server.  Check to see if
the font server is getting started at boot (it is probably called xfs).

This is really a problem you should bring up on a mailing list for list
for configuring your distribution.  It is not a GNOME problem.

James.

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On Sun, 5 Sep 1999, Matt Nelson wrote:

> Okay, need help here.  I seem to have broken gnome.  Let me preface thius 
> by saying it _was_working fine.  In the meantime, I installed (actually, 
> just got the driver compiled) a network card and also had a few inodes go 
> loopy on me.  Fsck reported it worked everything, but who knows.  I usually 
> do a "startx" to get into gnome, but this is what I am getting now:
> 
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> 
> Failed to set default font path 'unix: -1'
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> I am still VERY new at X and the like, although have been using linux for 
> over 2 years.  I really don't have a clue as to what has happened, and yes 
> I have been looking at FAQs, HOWTO's etc., but can't figure this out.
> 
> Your help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt Nelson N5TKN
> admin@nccinternet.com
> NCC Internet
> 
> 
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