Re: [K12OSN] x won't start on server [DONE -not solved]

[Jimmy Schwankl <schwankl chatham k12 nc us>]

On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 07:11 PM, dahopkins comcast net wrote:

> I don't know if this is the problem, but when I ran apt on a 3.1.1 
> install, it updated the bitstream fonts which then caused X to stop.  
> Removing the bitstream update restored X.
>
> Dave Hopkins
> > Jimmy,
> >
> > SOrry, my mistake.  Port 7100 is the port you need to be looking for.
> > 177 is for xdmcp (gdm-binary).
> >
> > As you can see, there is something listening on 7100 like there
> > should be.
> >
> > Since restarting xfs, have you tried to bring up X again on the
> > console ?
> >
> > Jim.

Thanks you to all those who gave me advice.  In the end I just ended up 
reformatting and reinstalling 3.11 and restoring the user 
docs/users/goups/passwords/configs etc.  Only took about two hours 
total and everything is running great again.  I still don't know what 
got screwed up, but the teacher who uses that lab was more interested 
in having it running than in me taking this opportunity to grow in my 
linux abilities :-)  I have a long way to go, but I really do 
appreciate this community of help.

Peace,
Jimmy Schwankl