On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:09:37AM -0400, Andrew Haninger wrote: > On 8/22/05, charles williams <williams_c1950@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Start looking for another job. > > In the meantime, I've researched his errors a bit more. The error > about not being able to find "default font 'fixed'" is common and > generally means there's some problem with (surprise!) loading the > fonts. The other error that he gave that was returned by 'startx' was: > > XIO: fatal io error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining. > > Googling for this error returned many results. One in particular > looked helpful. Here are the relevant links: > > Initial report: > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2002-August/msg00003.html > Reply: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gdm-list/2002-August/msg00004.html > > Note the reply to the initial problem report: > > Jules> Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed' > > You X Font Server isn't running. /etc/init.d/xfs start. > > Again, this suggests that the font server simply isn't running. > Restarting it should allow XFree86 to work or at least should cause it > to fail in some other way that can then be diagnosed further. Yes. Very specifically, that error almost always means "your OS thinks the font server is *not* supposed to be on, and your Xconfig thinks it is". > Furthermore, I'm quite aware that I need to start looking for a new > job. I'm not allowed to stay in my current part-time position much > longer as I'm graduating from college soon. If you have any > suggestions, I'd be interested to hear them. Oooh! Nice one. ;-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@xxxxxxxxxxx Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "NPR has a lot in common with Nascar... we both turn to the left." - Peter Sagal, on Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me! _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
