On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 14:12:24 +0200, Familien Bolding wrote: >At work today I had problems restarting X. > >I tried both woth xdm (which I use as default) and startx. >xdm hang and the screen blinked every now and then. >Using startx I was able to diagnose the problem to somthing like > > >unable to use/open default font fixed >errno -2 > >Sorry for the incomplete description but now I'm home and don't have >the error messages here. > >I checked in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and found nothing like fixed >fonts. > >Please reply to this address as well as debian-user. > > >Karsten
"fixed" is just one of the fonts in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc (see fonts.alias there) which is very important (its the default font) The problem might be in /etc/X11/XF98Config where there is a line for every font directory. Anyway - check /var/log/xsession-log (or something like it) for the exact error report. The blinking of the screen you saw when starting xdm is caused by the X-server being restarted over and over again. (xdm automatically restarts this X-server as soon as it stops, so a X-server bailing out at startup causes an endless circle...) Hope i could help at least a little bit... >PS: Is there an easy and safe way to allow a user to use shutdown. I have no idea, but perhaps you should post this question again in a seperate mail. PSes might not be read if they have a completely different topic to the mail. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Norbert "Nobbi" Nemec Paul-Gerhardt-Str. 4 90765 Fuerth Tel: 0911-761206 Fax: 0911-7658329 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
