Hi Thomas,
Thanks for the commands, I know they will come in handy in the future. I
ran "/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start" and got no error messages. It said:
"Starting X Font server: " [ OK ]
I then ran ntsysv and xfs was checked off.
I then ran dmesg and I saw no reference to xfs at all.
Michael
At 09:36 AM 11/23/00 +0000, you wrote:
>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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