Right, I'll give it go...
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 10:34:48PM -0700, Michael Lewis wrote:
> 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.
That much is normal, I'm afraid - when Linux runs out of memory, bizarre
things happen. In most cases the system will have to be shut 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)
Ok, if I'm not completely mistaken, this means that the font server is
not running. If you try to start it manually, as root (run
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start"), do you get any error messages?
Also, (as root), run ntsysv to check whether xfs still gets started on
bootup. Another thing you can check is "dmesg", which gives you most of
the boot messages - again, check for error messages coming from xfs.
HTH,
Thomas
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