I just installed Suse 10.00.
It took awhile but I got it figured out and was using it for a couple days.
Then I rebooted and now it won't get into X windows.

It ends at this warning,

could not init font path Path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local
removing from list!

could not init font path Path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID
removing from list!

I think this isn't platform dependant since I've googled and there is a lot of stuff about this kind of error, but I haven't been able to find anything that works.

First I just commented out the ref to

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local and
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID

in the /etc/X11/xorg file.

Although the, Could not init errors disappeared, it still didn't do anything.

Then I tried this ln -s /usr/share/X11/fonts /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
I saw it mentioned somewhere so I tried it. It didn't work.

I need a little help here. I will provide you with any additional info if you need it.

Help help.

is xfs deamon running ?
that is the font server of X

ok. I don't think the xfs server is running.
When I was looking through yast and I tried to start it because it said it wasn't running. I tried to start it and it wouldn't

Keep in mind for me too go back and forth between XP (now) and Suse. I have to a bit of HD swapping. So I will stay here and look for a little bit before I do the reccomendations and come back.


Was the grep command for me to execute it and post the results here?

Ok,
xfs is currently disabled.
if i try to enable it using yast, I get this error message

/etc/initd/xfs start
returned 7 (program not running)
starting X Font Serverfind: /tmp/.font-unix: no such file or directory /tmp/.font-unix


well there is a directory /tmp/.font-unix but it's empty.


I also have a copy of xorg.0.log too, but it's pretty long. Do you want I should post the whole thing, or some section in particular?

Thank you
Thank you.

grep searches for and returns lines that contain a specified substring. In this case it would look for any line that contains 'EE' - in the Xorg.0.log file, lines that contain this marker are errors and are likely the most relevent part of the log when you are having problems.

Oh, ok.
No instances of EE in the file.

Just let me know if there is anything you want to look at it.

I just ended up re-installing it.
It seemed to install a lot better this time.

maybe the Update pacthes screwed stuff up.