Re: help: X Font Server

[Mike Dreibelbis <maddoc en com>]

Try running Xconfigurator again, I had a similar error message once after
playing with my font directories and running Xconfigurator fixed the problem.

Good Luck,
Mike

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Santiago Almenara Masías wrote:
> Lately when I run XWindow,
> 
> I received this error message
> 
> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect:errno = 111
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'
> 
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages
> 
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
> 
> Then, it didn't enter to X and returns to the prompt.
> 
> After that, when I reboot, I see :
> 
> Shutting down X Font Server	[FAILED]
> 
> I have re-installed all XFree86 drivers and nothing happens.
> 
> By the way, XWindow, first, worked well before this happened
> 
> Please help,
> Santiago