[plug] xserver died

[McMeikan, Andrew]

Assuming your fonts are not wiped off the disk, have a check around for any
lock files, look in the man pages for where they should be for both X and th
font server.

	cya,	Andrew...

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	average at wantree.com.au [SMTP:average at wantree.com.au]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 20, 1999 5:56 PM
> To:	plug at linux.org.au
> Subject:	[plug] xserver died
> 
> I have a rh 6.0 system using kernel 2.2.12-15 and XFree86 3.3.3 as the
> xserver
> and kde as the client.
> on the weekend we lost power while the computer was on and
> since then i have been unable to start the xserver when i try and run
> "startx"
> it goes through the motions and eventually i get the following.
> 
> quote
> 
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnetc: Can't connect: errno = 111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> endquote
> 
> in the course of trying to find out what has gone wrong i have upgraded 
> XFree86 to ver 3.3.5-1.6.0. I cannot find anything obviously wrong
> looking. and
> while looking into the man pages could not find what the error number
> refers to.
> 
> any help greatly appreciated
> baz