Re: [PLUG] dead XFS

[Time <time@www.clockbot.net>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 03:59:50PM -0500, Paul wrote:
> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 15:59:50 -0500
> From: Paul <paul@dpagin.net>
> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U)
> To: PLUG <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>, chlug@chlug.nothinbut.net
> Subject: [PLUG] dead XFS
> 
> Help.  I can't start my X Font Server.  When I try to start
> it, it says OK.  But, when I try to start X, it complains
> that it can't find the font "fixed".  So, I try to restart
> XFS and it says XFS is not running but PID file exists.  So,
> I delete the PID file and try again.  Still won't work.
> 
> The only thing that I can think of that I did recently was
> trying to install Film GIMP.  In another case, installing
> OSCAR whacked out X, but I could resolve that by
> uninstalling OSCAR.  Film GIMP, if that's the cause, is not
> so friendly.
> 
> Any ideas would be helpful.
> 

This happend on my Sparc Debian box a little while ago, and
all I remember doing was apt-get install --reinstall xfs
and made sure the pathing was correct in /etc/X11/fs/config

Hope this helps...


Regards,

Time



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