[CLUE-Tech] Help - I've lost my Xwindows

[Gary Threlkeld]

After several attempts to "fix" the problem, I went to the less technical approach of 
performing an upgrade reinstall on RedHat 7.2 from the original disks.  Selecting only the
Xwindows components, I refreshed the installation and Xwindows came back upon reboot.
I even had my original desktop intact.

Maybe when I get a little more experiences with Linux and XWindows I'll understand
what happened.  Until then, I'm just happy I'm not forced to going back to MS Windozs.

Now back to the orignal work of correcting some network issues.

Gary
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gary Threlkeld 
  To: clue-tech at clue.denver.co.us 
  Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 7:41 PM
  Subject: [CLUE-Tech] Help - I've lost my Xwindows


  I was working with making some changes to my network configuration on RedHat 7.2 and I dunno  - a gremlin, powersurge, something caused my Xwindows to go south.  I tried looking at linuxoconfig ... then rebooted.  The reboot senario went like this:  Smooth boot - no reported errors -- (should have gone directly to Xwindows).  

  0)     Got login prompt then machine paused -  followed by:
  1)     INIT: Switching to runlevel 3
          INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
          Starting automount: No Mountpoints Defined                [OK]
          Starting linuxconf-setup                                              [OK]
  2)     -- machine then hangs --
  3)     I hit <ENTER>
  4)     login prompt appears again.
  5)     I login using user root.
  6)     Goes to command line prompt
  7)     I enter Xconfigurator and successfully run through the questions and I am presented with a visible window.  
  8)     I save and verify that it saved to /etc/X11 under the XF86Config file name.  I also verify that no .xinit files are in the startup directory for users that might override the saved file.
  9)     From command line I enter   startx
  10)   Screen blanks to go to build Xwindow then series of status messages ending with errors
          ...
          Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list
          Fatal server error:
          could not open default font 'fixed'

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

        Then goes back to command line

  Can anyone relate to this problem and/or help?  I see where I might be able to override parameters to startx.  Could this be a possible workaround?

  Thanks,

  Gary


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