Xwindows took a digger.......

[nFiLtR8r]

Xwindows worked fine for a couple of days then, today while booting I get...

failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)

Is their a way to repair the problem?
Any ideas?
Should I just reinstall?

[Skroob]

IF you are running XF4 you can comment that line out of the config file(/etc/X11/XFConfig-4 in debian). Otherwise I think you need to change the -1 to 7000 or 7100 in that same file. The line in question should be somewhere near the top with all the other font information.


Skroob

EDIT: I'm not sure if either 7000 or 7100 is the right number. I'm at work on a win machine and cant check.

[This message has been edited by Skroob (edited 04 January 2001).]

[X_Entity]

certainly the first fontpath line in you XF86Config file is what is causing the problem. As suggested above try commenting it out and seeing if that cures it. I have had a similar problem in the past which was to do with TTF fonts and XFSTT which for some reason would allow the X server to connect.
I believe what I did was edit the unix line and replace unix with IP address : 127.0.0.1 so the line reads
FontPath "inet/127.0.0.1/:<also can't remember if its 7000 7100 or even 7101>"
this also may cure the problem. I wish I could sound more positive about it but it was a long time ago and I was trying so many different things out that I honestly can't remember.

Good luck sorting it out. Hope the advise helps you.

[This message has been edited by X_Entity (edited 04 January 2001).]