LarryMartell Posted July 27, 2005 Report Share Posted July 27, 2005 I am running mandrake linux 10.1 on a system I setup about 1 month ago. I have not had any problem on the system until today when the X server suddenly crashed. When I tried to restart it, it failed with the messages: Could not init font element unix/:-1, removing from list! Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'. I rebooted, got the same message. I ran the font server in the foreground, not as a daemon, so I could see it's output. At start up it said: _FontTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.font-unix) failed, errno = 13 _FontTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local 13 is permission denied, but why would it get this on /tmp, which is world writable: # ls -la /tmp total 12 drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 4096 Jul 27 11:04 ./ drwx------ 19 root root 4096 Jul 26 15:01 ../ drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jul 27 11:00 .X11-unix/ Also, I am not out of disk space or inodes. Anyone have any clues? -larry Moved from Software to Terminal Shell Commands, Kernel and Programming - Artificial Intelligence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 Log in to a terminal as root and type: service xfs start (or /etc/init.d/xfs start), log out, login as normal user and type: startx <name of DE> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryMartell Posted July 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 That had no effect on the problem. As I said, the issue is that xfs cannot create the /tmp/.font-unix - but why it gets permission denied on that I have no clue. -larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted July 28, 2005 Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 If that doesn't work start x without xfs. Just add the fontpaths to xorg.conf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryMartell Posted July 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 28, 2005 I got this working! Somehow the perms on / were 700 - on every other system they were 755. When I changed them to 755 and restarted xfs then the X server started right up! -larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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