Why Xserver dies after changing from init 5 to init 3

[Chuck Mead]

Tsikadillo wrote:
> The question is why my  xserver dies when i tried to change my init from 
> 5 to 3 and when i tried to reactivate the xserver i received a message
> XIO error 104 (Connection reset by peer ) on X server ":0.0"
> after 0 requests (0 known processes) with 0 events remaining .
> 
> I had no errors of type (EE) , but the following messages before the 
> last I wrote :
> 
> Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
> 
> also : Fatal server error
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> Thanks for the help
> If this is a bug please inform me via e-mail and  for  any potential way 
> to fix it !!!!

Not a bug. Just a misconfiguration on your part. Execute the following 
commands:

chkconfig --levels 345 xfs on
init 3
service xfs start
startx

Then you should find your self in an X session and in runlevel 3.


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