Xwindows help

[Deven Phillips]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote:

> > aloha
> 
> I booted up my linux box and hit "startx". Instead of booting right into X
> I ended up back in command line mode with this error message
> 
> Error loading keymap usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/compiled/server-0.xkm
> Couldnít load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
> _FontTranSocketUNIXConnect: Canít connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path ëunix/::-1í
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font ëfixedí
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kil or server shutdown).

What this is saying is that your xfs (X Font Server) is unavailable. check to 
make sure that it is started on boot. you can also type :

/etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start

Then try starting X.


Deven Phillips, CISSP
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Deven Phillips, CISSP
Network Architect
Viata Online, Inc.