On Sun, 23 Dec 2007, willjay wrote:

> 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.
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Do you need to start or re-start xfs ?