Words of advice: This isn't Microsoft. When it screws up, you don't go
reinstalling it unless it's overly borked. This isn't the land of "reboot
everytime a file gets accessed" or "reinstall because a config file needs
to be edited."
Now.. it is true that sometimes a reinstall is the cleanest choice, as
long as it's not the whole distro.
You have what looks to be a common font problem with X... that is.. it has
a problem finding something important, so it just won't start because
fixed is a highly needed font.
Have you gone through your X config file or your font directories yet?
Don't take anything I've said to be rude or anything.. part of learning is
thinking for yourself :)
font server.. XFree86-xfs
"rpm -qa | grep XFree86" to see all your X packages that are installed.
"man rpm" for help on how to use rpm.
As of my writing this email, I'm the only one (apparently) to email you
with anything whatsoever... so please don't chew my head off :)
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm relatively new to Linux and I have a bit of a problem. I am running RH
> 6.0 and while using GIMP, there was a problem with a font or something and
> all of a sudden windows just started opening up like crazy and kept doing
> so until I ran out of RAM. The whole system froze and I couldn't do
> anything but shut it down. When I started it back up, and tried to startx,
> I got the following message:
>
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path ' unix/:-1"
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)
>
> Right after I first installed this, my wife was working with the font
> manager and the same thing happened then as well, but I didn't lose X in
> the process that time. Is this font thing a common problem and what can I
> do to fix it. I still have my RH CD, but I can't find anything in my books
> that tells how to reinstall. Can I just reinstall the font server, if so,
> what directory is it under on the CD and how do I do it? I'm really confused.
>
> Thanking you in advance,
>
> Michael
>
> Michael Lewis
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