Hello, I'm not really sure but may be if to try to comment the line containing the font path "unix/:7100" in the XF86config file to see if it works better (X should then load its default font path) something else: "station2 xfs: cannot establish any listening sockets" may be the socket is locked by a remaining .lock file cheers Samy Chbinou Selon Martin Roy <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, i have this problems for many years. > > OS: RHEL ES v.3 > Rpm : XFree86-4.3.0-35.EL > > I do not know why, my xserver does not want to start from level 3 to 5 with > the command startx. > > Notice that problem is coming from no where and it is random and > sporadicaly. > > A) Here the core error message that i get when i tried to start xserver: > > " Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!" > "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" > "X10: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remainning." > > B) Here also the messages that i get when i boot the system : > > " Jan 23 08:41:12 station2 xfs: xfs startup succeeded " > " Jan 23 08:41:12 station2 xfs: cannot establish any listening sockets " > > If you could provide me with some directions to solve this problem, I would > greatly appreciate it. > > Thanks > > Martin Roy > www.linuxsoft.ca -- _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86