Unable to start X

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

Thanks everyone for your help - it turned out to be a lack of
disk space....  I cleaned things up and it now works.

BTW is there an easy way to set the run level other than editing
the file?  I'm thinking of a set type command.



Brad Mugleston, KI0OT

There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those that
understand binary and those that don't.

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, DUARDITO wrote:

> maybe your fonts are corupted.
>
> send me your logs.
>
> 2006/3/19, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net>:
> >
> > I'm having a very strange problem when I boot - I normally boot
> > with a Run Level of 5 (X11) but yesterday and today when I boot
> > the computer just keeps trying to get into level 5 and can't.
> > One time I got it to cancel out and got an error message
> > something like - invalid font path "unit/:7000" in my XF86config
> > file.  As far as I know nothing has changed that in years (this
> > machine is running RH9).
> >
> > Made some changes (like changing the Run Level to 3) and I can
> > get in but if I try to get into a graphical environment I get a
> > like error.  I'd be willing to send anyone my log file(s) if it
> > would be helpful.
> >
> > I am very short on disk space (shows some free space but I'm at
> > 100%) so I've been moving some files to a different computer.
> >
> > Suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
> >
> > There are 10 types of people in this world.  Those that
> > understand binary and those that don't.
> >
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