On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Arni Raghu wrote:
> For some reason(screwing up the firewall settings) I rebooted my machine and
> as it rebooted it stoppped when it tried to start the xfs service...I hit a
> Ctrl-D and it continued...I did a startx and it gave the error::
>
> ..nothing would budge it...I logged in..and then did a
> Xconfigurator..which detected everything well..but in the last step just
> when it s about to exit freezes..showing up the blue screen and staying
> there..funny !!
>
> BTW the error that xfs showed me was
> "could not connect to server...fatal error blah blah..failed to set default
> font path 'unix/:-1'
>
> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> I then read some sites with the error I got
> and commented teh line
>
> # FontPath "unix/:-1" in the config file...
>
> Now startx works but again on reboot xfs does not....
>
> what is going on here..??? any help in understanding the above situation is
> appreciated.
Is your DNS broken because of the firewall changes? Check that out. Make sure
"nslookup localhost" returns a nice quick answer too....
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