[Linux] "startx" doesn't work anymore

[Arieh Markel]

> From: joshuacolvin@springmail.com
> To: Linux FLUX <linux@flux.org>
> Subject: [Linux] "startx" doesn't work anymore
> 
> Hello everyone:
> 
> I've been happily using Red Hat 6.2 since it came out, and decided it was time 
to do something about those ugly fonts. So I read the "Font Deuglification" 
HOWTO.
> 
> Using X before I touched anything worked great (except the fonts were pretty 
ugly).
> 
> I changed the following:
> 
> 1) installed the 100dpi RPM from the RH CD
> 2) added a font path to my XF86Config file for
> the 100dpi as per the HOWTO. (and yup, I checked for typos, etc.)
> 
> I restarted X and everything worked great. My fonts even looked better!
> 
> I powered down my computer, went to bed, woke-up, turned it back on, and now 
"startx" doesn't work at all. I get this msg:
> 
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> Fatal Server Error: could not open default font 'fixed'
> X connection to :0.0 broken
> 
> I grepped for "fixed" and couldn't find it in any nearby X config files. It's 
certainly not in my FontPath in the XF86Config file, so apparently X looks in 
many places to decide what fonts to load (which is unwise IMHO). I also grepped 
for the "_FontTrans" from above and that didn't yield anything either.

The 'fixed' is not on the X config files, but on the X font database.

My guess is that the font server daemon does not know about your new
fontpath.


> 
> I undid my single line changed, but that didn't solve anything.
> 
> I've never had to reinstall Linux to fix a problem but I'd be willing, since 
the single file I changed I changed back the way it was but X is still broken. 
God knows what RH did when I installed the 100dpi RPM, and I didn't feel like 
recursively grepping all 5 billion exotically located files for a recent change 
date to see what exactly it did change. 
> 
> I use KDE if that matters at all.
> 
> Any ideas? I was just toying with the idea of using my own apache web server 
to host my webpages when this happened. HA! Time to rethink that...

Not clear why the ability or inability to run X11 should impact your
decision to run a webserver (given that the webserver does not require X11).

Arieh

> 
> I couldn't find any useful info on the web for this specific problem.
> 
> Thanks as always for any help.
> Josh
> joshuacolvin@springmail.com
> 
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