Subject: Re: startx on 7500
From: Homer Jr (hoju_239@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 19:32:42 MST
okay it looks like both ports are set to -1. xfs is
not running and when i try to execute xfs I receive
this error
STarting X Font Server: execvp: No such file or
directory
[FAILED]
Is this saying there is a problem with the file it is
trying to use for the fonts? what is this file?
Bob
--- Hollis R Blanchard <hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Bob Arnold wrote:
>
> > Hey saw this thread and wanted to ask a similar
> > question. When ever I try to run startx I get a
> > flickering screen and then it returns to the login
> in
> > prompt. I have a script which output the
> following:
> >
> [snip]
> > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno
> =
> > 111
> > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
>
> It looks like your font path is a little messed up.
> Your job is to get X and
> xfs (the font server) to agree on which port number
> to use.
>
> In your XF86Config, there's a line like 'FontPath
> "unix/:-1"'. The -1 is
> the port it expects to find the font server at.
>
> See if any port number (should be -1 or 7100) is
> specified in
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs . You should also make sure xfs
> is running ('service xfs
> status' will tell you).
>
> -Hollis
>
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