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nicodemus caine wrote in message <8lc1f8$cte$1@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net>...
>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*
>


The 'unix/:-1' is telling X to use the X Font Server (xfs) which may not be
running.


Jeff S.