Help, X won't start

[anton]

Hello,

it was working ok last night , I don't know what I did, but today it won't start ; ( ,.. here's what error he gives me :

_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't Connect: errno=111
failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'


Thanks you very much,
bye.

[CMonster]

-sorry this may not be much help:


I was upgrading XFree86 on Mandrake 7.1 and got the same error on reboot - after struggling to get the thing back to the way it was and reinstalling a bunch of RPMs it finally rebooted with X working again - I got into the GUI but KDE was fried.


Finally I got p!$$ed off and just reinstalled. I usually have BeOS or a second Linux install so I can mount whatever partition I have toasted and rescue my files prior to reinstalling ... I guess I'm too well trained by Microsoft - got a problem/reinstall --I have never seen Linux just screw up by itself -only by my tinkering.


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[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 06 January 2001).]

[anton]

I have Mandrake 7.0 too

And it come up the same way , I was just screwing around with many RPMs and stuff like that (trying to get avifile to work...)

But I don't wanna reinstall Mandrake , because I have too many stuff already set-up there , and I don't wanna to set-up it all over again http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

[Jeepsta]

I have had this same problem as well in Mandrake 7.2. Check you XF86Config file in the "fonts" section and make sure that "unix/:-1" is in there. I am not sure but this might solve it. Let me know if it does or not and i will see what else I can come up with.

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Its a jeep thing... You wouldn't understand.

[Strike]

Originally posted by Jeepsta:
I have had this same problem as well in Mandrake 7.2. Check you XF86Config file in the "fonts" section and make sure that "unix/:-1" is in there. I am not sure but this might solve it. Let me know if it does or not and i will see what else I can come up with.

Actually, with this error message I would make sure that line is NOT in there, or that it is commented out (put a # at the beginning of the line)