Still can't get X to start after latest up2date

Nils Philippsen nphilipp at redhat.com
Fri Oct 22 07:28:26 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 09:01 +0200, Harald Hoyer wrote:
> Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> > I updated to the latest xorg packages yesterday, but X is still
> > refusing to start. The fatal error, according to the logs is:
> > 
> > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
> > 
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?
> > 
> 
> the service xfs does not seem to be started...
> # chkconfig --add xfs
> # chkconfig xfs on

... and "service xfs start" if you don't want to reboot the machine,
then "init 3; sleep 2; init 5" to get your gdm/kdm/xdm nudged.

Nils
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