Unable to start X

brad.mugleston at comcast.net brad.mugleston at comcast.net
Sun Mar 19 06:08:59 UTC 2006


I'm having a very strange problem when I boot - I normally boot
with a Run Level of 5 (X11) but yesterday and today when I boot
the computer just keeps trying to get into level 5 and can't.
One time I got it to cancel out and got an error message
something like - invalid font path "unit/:7000" in my XF86config
file.  As far as I know nothing has changed that in years (this
machine is running RH9).

Made some changes (like changing the Run Level to 3) and I can
get in but if I try to get into a graphical environment I get a
like error.  I'd be willing to send anyone my log file(s) if it
would be helpful.

I am very short on disk space (shows some free space but I'm at
100%) so I've been moving some files to a different computer.

Suggestions?

Thanks,

Brad Mugleston, KI0OT

There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those that
understand binary and those that don't.




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