startx -unable to start

Mike Wooding timmywooding at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 29 21:14:50 UTC 2005



--- Geetha Thanu <geetha_thanu at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> I have redhat 8 linux system and recently it was
> crashed.
> I ran fsck by going in to single user mode and now it
> is booting but unable to get the login screen.
> 
> If i give startx I get the following error
> 
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

 See manpage for XF86Config (look for font) - I've seen this
 problem when the service xfs turned off. By default X11 uses
 xfs for fonts.


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