the command "startx" does not change from runlevel 3 to 5,
but it does launch an x-server whilst you will still stay in runlevel 3.
changing from 3 to 5 is done via "init 5" - which means the init-daemon
will launch some amount of programs including X11, which are listed for
level 5.
if you dont have network connected font servers in your local network,
then you can disable the Unix font path line from your XF86Config file.
other than that you should have font paths in reach on your local machine.
to my best knowledge there was some access rights bug in an RH-RPM file
that did concern fonts. please make sure you have installed latest updates.
xfs is the font server demon, you might want to try to disable those service
if you find it usefull for diagnostics. i am not totally deep in font
managent but
i assume it is not absolutely a needed component but raises problems
sometimes.
-Alex.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Martin Roy" <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 4:18 PM
Subject: Starting xserver problem
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
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