Further on this (sorry, should have check this first): Pinging www.google.com works as expected (redhat just must not respond to pings) and Mozilla runs and connects to sites without problems, so it seems it's just Firefox that has decided to call it quits on me. There are no discernible messages in any of the logs (but perhaps someone has a better idea where to look for firefox errors). I must have had some up2date setting wrong because I'm finding that I need to redo a lot of basic settings. I checked and I definitely have the option turned on to not update packages where the local configuration has changed. On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 12:09:47 +0100, Eamonn Sullivan <eamonn.sullivan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This worked, and now I have X back, but I've run into two other > problems since the last update. > > 1. I can't ping outside my subnet, but name lookup works. For exampe: > > $ ping www.redhat.com > PING www.redhat.com (209.132.177.50) 56(84) bytes of data > > And then nothing. > > 2. Firefox now won't run. Even when I run from the command line > (either as a user or as root), it exits immediately without any > messages. > > > > > On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 09:01:01 +0200, Harald Hoyer <harald@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Eamonn Sullivan wrote: > > > > > > > I updated to the latest xorg packages yesterday, but X is still > > > refusing to start. The fatal error, according to the logs is: > > > > > > Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list! > > > > > > Fatal server error: > > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > > > > the service xfs does not seem to be started... > > # chkconfig --add xfs > > # chkconfig xfs on > > >