Re: [PLUG] Error in starting X

["Fred Forester" <fforest@netcarrier.com>]

Hi Rebecca ,

I noticed from a netstat the socket files in /tmp are 
'.' dot files. Are you getting those.  errno 111 is connection
refused. This sounds more like a client error. Since the client can't
connect the Xserver dies. 

Fred


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Rebecca Ore <rebecca@ogoense.net>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 12:31 AM
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Error in starting X


> On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Stephen Brown wrote:
> 
> > Rebecca Ore wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'm getting this error message:
> > > 
> > > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> > > Fatal server error:
> > > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > > 
> > > Anyone have any idea of how to fix this?
> > You need to start the X Font Server (xfs, or xfsft),
> > The details depend on the distro you are using, but
> > for example on redhat you can try
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start
> > 
> > if that fixes the problem, do (as root) ntsysv
> > and enable xfs at startup.
> 
> This is happening again, and after I'd upgraded to RedHat 6.2.  I
> tried your solution and it didn't work 
> 
> The font server is running, but there's some problem connecting to the
> proper font path after an X crash.  I removed all the temp files to
> see if that would help anything, and rebooted.
> 
> Something got hosed when X crashed, but I'm not sure what.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rebecca Ore
> http://www.ogoense.net
> 
> 
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