Bad update - X11 corrupted

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 11:40, Dick Brown wrote:
> OK, there was no 'rhgb' in my boot loader, so I got in and manually 
> changed /etc/inittab.
> 
> The command 'X -probeonly' didn't seem to do anything helpful.  I saw 
> some text flash on the screen, but then the screen blanked.  I checked 
> the log file, but no help there.  I went ahead and just ran 'X' and 
> again checked the log file.  I saw the following messages near the bottom:
> 
>   could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list
>   fatal server error:  could not open default font 'fixed'

This may be the classic X Font server problem.  Try to restart (or
start) xfs:

service xfs restart

Forrest