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Sean <sean@intranet.can> posted thusly...

[i'm being crossposted again...i found it in
alt.os.linux.mandrake]

> Most likely, though, the fault lies with the X Font
Server.
> Change to directory /etc/rc.d/init.d and run:
oddly...no, it's not.
that was my reasoning at first as well, but i turned on the
font server and it *still* crashed and then i turned it off
and it continued to do so - technically, the font server is
only used if you want any other machine to access x from
your machine itself...

what it looks like to me [and don't quote me on this,
because i'm not sure] is that the automated programs for
building x configurations [XConfigurator, setup, linuxconf,
etc...] are meant to build the 'unix:-\' metacharacter as a
way of pointing to the fonts in the directory that houses
them [i forget where...] and all of the automated services
*don't* which is why you get the font crash...i don't know
if this is a peculiarity of mandrake 7.02 and it's
configuration tools or not...

either way, it's simple enough to just yank the lines from
the standard XF86Config file and dump them into your custom
set-up...*shrug*

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