On 06-Mar-2000 Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 04:52:19PM -0800, Martin Brown wrote:
>> All of a sudden, I'm having the following XFree86 problem when doing a
>> 'startx':
>>
>> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>>
>> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
>>
>> Fatal server error:
>> could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> Run 'df'. Check permissions on /tmp.
This problem appears so often, I am astonished that Red Hat did not fix it
yet. Instead of "unix:-1" in /etc/X11/XFConfig you should put:
FontPath "tcp/localhost:7100"
and in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs script the line which invokes xfs font server
should have
-port 7100
INSTEAD of
-port -1
Once you do that, everything will work. I follow this from Red Hat 5.2 and
nobody has fixed it yet. How it works with RedHat remains a mystery to me.
Zoltan
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