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OS: Mandriva 2006
So everything was working fine and dandy. I had installed a few programs prior to the problem (Eclipse, NetBeans, and Flash plugin for firefox) then rebooted only to be presented with a nice:
Could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list!
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
X would not start. So using my mad lynx skillz, i googled the issue and found a recommendation to add the following lines to my xorg.conf
This got me back into X, and exerything seems to be working fine now. But I desire to know what went wrong. I feel like i did a workaround rather than resolving the problem. Can anyone provide me with some input as to what may be wrong? Thanks
I actually came across that when I googled the issue, so I tried 'service -f xfs', and the screen showed that the service started fine [ OK ]. startx still failed though. service -s showed and still shows 'xfs (pid 5053) is running...'
I had the same exact problem, it drove me crazy for a while until I found a fix. I want to share it just in case someone else will run into the same problem.
As per the entry in this config file , fontpath entries are taken care by a independent font server . So , I commented the above entry. Also , we have to make sure xfs is running as it is the font server.
Phew after making the above changes , I am able to use GUI
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