Re: KDE or Gnome won't come up.

["Matthew S. Rinehart" <msrinehart cs millersville edu>]

Chances are that the font list was modified and xfs doesn't know it, so it can't find the font you need.  Probably what you need to do is delete the socket in /tmp/.font-unix and then restart xfs.  This has happened to me before, and that's what's fixed it.  I'm assuming that you're getting an error such as "Cannot find default font `foo'," because that's what it sounds like.

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On Tue, 11 Dec 2001 04:29:35 -0800
"Jeffrey Cobb" <cdoc2000 mediaone net> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was playing a DVD on my computer the other night and it locked up my system while I was fooling around with the controls (obviously found a bug).
> 
> I attempted to back out of KDE to the login prompt but just got a black screen.
> 
> I couldn't switch to any other terminal to shut down the system so I simple reset it.
> 
> Now the window interface won't come up at all.
> 
> I attempted to start it with "startx" but I get a font server error in the log and dumped back to the console.
> 
> Any ideas what's up?
> 
> Thanx in advance,
> Jeff Cobb
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