xfs starts..and dies

[Mark Street]

I hate this one......  Check the perms on /tmp it should have the sticky 
bit set, chmod 1777 /tmp

restart xfs with service xfs start

I think that fixes it.....

If not you can comment out the server line in XF86Config and manually paste 
the paths in there..... hack, hack hack.

At 09:01 PM 4/14/2002 -0700, Joseph McCarty wrote:

>Running RH 7.2, my font server, xfs, has stopped starting and subsequently,
>X won't start because it can't find fonts.
>
>Watching the boot process "Starting xfs" comes up [ok].  Running
>"service --status-all" yields "xfs    dead but pid exits."  I can restart
>xfs, but the service report again yields the same report.
>
>I found a report of this problem in an XFree86.org bulliten board at
>http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/fonts/2002-March/001408.html.  I have
>ximian desktop installed, but it has run fine for weeks until now.  I have
>looked at the "catalog" contents for /etc/X11/fs/config, and it seems ok.
>
>I also installed an update for xfs from redhat,
>XFree86-xfs-4.1.0-15.i386.rpm.  I had renamed the config file to be able to
>compare it with the new one.  The two are identical.
>
>Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>JM