X Server problems on Fedora Core 3
John Reynolds
jreyn at us.ibm.com
Wed Oct 12 13:25:23 UTC 2005
Rick Stevens opened the Vault of Knowledge and brought forth:
>
>On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 14:28 -0700, John Reynolds wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> I had a system crash during an up2date session. The GUI is a casualty.
>>
>> When the system tries to boot into the GUI mode, it goes blank, puts up
a
>> message about a failure to start : the fixed font is not found and
>> unix:/7100 server is not found. I put it into text mode startup,
rebooted
>> and tried again.
>
>That's the X font server not running. Try "service xfs start". Also
>make sure you run "chkconfig --level 5 xfs on" to ensure it'll start
>the next time run level 5 (GUI) is started.
That fixed it: ran both, reset inittab to level 5, and rebooted. And when
it came back, the mouse driver was functioning again and the GUI came up
clean.
I had run xfs from the init.d directory, instead of using the service
command; I didn't think that made the difference. I have a hunch that the
chkconfig straightened whatever was bent. What file(s) does that groom? I
like to understand the mechanisms, not just the commands, it improves the
troubleshooting.
Many thanks!
John Reynolds
IBM-by-the-Bay
San Francisco CA
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