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by **John Baile** » Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:34:54

> Hello.
> I'm having a problem with my X windows - it was working perfectly yesterday,
> but whenever I took the linux box from the house i was working on it to my
> house, it stopped working when i attempted to start it up - here's the error
> messages, followed by my XF86Config file.

> I believe the problem is the lack of a "fixed" font, unfortunately I have no
> idea how to fix this without re-installing X and/or my distribution -
> Mandrake Linux 7.1 (or possibly 7.2, i'm not entirely sure)
> XFree86 version 4.0.3, kernel 2.4.3-20mdk #1, on a P233MMX with 64MB of RAM.

[snip]

Quote:> _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> Fatal server error:
> could not open default font 'fixed'

> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> the full server output, not just the last messages

> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

The problem is your X Font Server has failed to start or has died, as
indicated by the fact that the X server can't connect to the XFS socket.

Try '/etc/init.d/xfs restart' or, preferably, 'service xfs restart' and
then try to restart X.

HTH,
John

by **Das Moos** » Tue, 30 Jul 2002 20:39:18

Unfortunately, upon doing that I get :
****************

Reloading X Font Server config: [FAILED]

Reloading X Font Server config: [FAILED]
**********************************************

I'm guessing from that it's a problem with my X Font Server configuration -
any ideas?

Das Moose.

> > Hello.
> > I'm having a problem with my X windows - it was working perfectly
yesterday,
> > but whenever I took the linux box from the house i was working on it to
my
> > house, it stopped working when i attempted to start it up - here's the
error
> > messages, followed by my XF86Config file.

> > I believe the problem is the lack of a "fixed" font, unfortunately I
have no
> > idea how to fix this without re-installing X and/or my distribution -
> > Mandrake Linux 7.1 (or possibly 7.2, i'm not entirely sure)
> > XFree86 version 4.0.3, kernel 2.4.3-20mdk #1, on a P233MMX with 64MB of
RAM.

> [snip]

> > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2
> > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
> > Fatal server error:
> > could not open default font 'fixed'

> > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send
> > the full server output, not just the last messages

> > XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
> > after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

> The problem is your X Font Server has failed to start or has died, as
> indicated by the fact that the X server can't connect to the XFS socket.

> Try '/etc/init.d/xfs restart' or, preferably, 'service xfs restart' and
> then try to restart X.

> HTH,
> John

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X windows problem - XIO: fatal IO error 104

X windows problem - XIO: fatal IO error 104

X windows problem - XIO: fatal IO error 104