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Re: unable to start X font server

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From: Kasper Dupont
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 09:12
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When X-posting to so many groups set FUT to the most relevant
group. I have set FUT to comp.os.linux.development.apps, not
because I bothered to find out which one is relevant, but
rather because it is the only of the groups I follow.

vicky wrote:
> 
> hello all ,
>               unable to start X font server
> 
> I'm getting following message once I execute 'startx'
> ---------------------------------------------------
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer)
> On X server '0.0' after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events
> remaining .
> 
> [drm: i810_flush_queue] *Error Lockup
> 
> in /var/syslog/log file
> -----------------------
> could not init font path element unix/:700 remaining from list

Here is your problem. xfs is not on port 700 but rather 7100.

> 
> Fatal server error : could not open default font Fixed .
> 
> i  tried out
> ------------
> 
> #chkconfig --list | grep xfs
> 
> #chkconfig xfs on
> #service xfs start
> 
> after above commands xfs is getting started but still the same
> problem.
> 
> I even tried out  Xconfigurator , when I run this then X windows gets
> opened only for once.
> 
> Please help me out.
> 
> Thanks in advance ,
> 
> Vikram.

Another possibility is that xfs failed to start because /tmp
was full.

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