On Dec 21, 3:52*am, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 20 Dec, 19:34, willjay <jim.highsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Will someone please take a look at this and help me fix the fix font?
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> > OSR 5.06
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> > I get this message after trying startx at the # from the console"
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> > failed to set default font path '/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/lib/X11/
> > fonts/Speedo/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/
> > lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/'
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'
> > giving up.
> > xinit: I/O error (errno 5): unable to connect to X server
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> > waiting for X server to shut down .........
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> > xinit: *X server slow to shut down, sending KILL signal.
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> > Help appreciated.
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> > wj
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> You're a bit short of data here. Did X *ever* work? Is this a clean
> install, or one on which people have done lots of patches? I'm seeing
> the results right now of a machine that's had patches and local
> modifications randomly installed on it. If possible, you should be
> able to rlogin or slogin into it (if you've installed OpenSSH!) and be
> able to look at the system.- Hide quoted text -
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This server has been up and working for many years, it has a
commercial version of ssh installed and everything was working fine,
then all of a sudden startx fails to start. You can ssh into it and
console text is working as well as everything else. I may not have the
proper video drive installed.