[lug] X FontPaths

[John Starkey]

Hmm. I tried starting x as a regular user and recieved the following:

_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListener: server already running.

The only thing running is xfs --droppriv --daemon

I guess this is in line with what Kevin was saying. But the error while
trying to run as root is 

_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
failed to set font path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

(the bottom two lines weren't included in my original post).

John


On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Kevin Fenzi wrote:

> >>>>> "John" == John Starkey <jstarkey at advancecreations.com> writes:
> 
> John> Hello All.  I'm on attempt number 3 at setting up X. I've had it
> John> running, and like it, but I just can't get it to jive with my
> John> work. Now it's been a while and I can't get the FontPath
> John> working.
> 
> John> When starting X it's dieing with a message "failed to set
> John> default font path 'unix/:-1'"
> 
> John> This doesn't look like a path to me :} Can anyone tell me what
> John> it means?
> 
> It's trying to talk to the X font server instead of talking to the
> files directly. The unix thing means that it should use a unix socket
> (local) to connect to the X font server. Probibly that's not
> running. ;) 
> 
> On RedHat at least, you can do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs start to start
> it (if it's installed). 
> 
> John> Then the next problem. I've changed the font path to a dir,
> 
> using xset? 
> 
> John> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and it's not changing the above
> John> value. I renamed all but one XF86Config (/etc/X11/XF86Config)
> John> and did a locate which isn't returning any other copies. Yet the
> John> font path isn't changing. Anyone know what else could be feeding
> John> the 'unix/:-1' value to X?
> 
> If you are using RH/Krud7, and are using XFree4.0.1, you might need to
> modify the /etc/X11/XFree86-4 file. Also, are you restarting X
> entirely after changing this? 
> 
> John> Thanks.
> John> John
> 
> kevin
>