[NBLUG/talk] Cannot get XWindows to start

[Mark Street]

Who owns the .font-unix directory?

xfs should be the owner and the perms should be 1777

chown xfs.xfs /tmp/.font-unix
chmod 1777 /tmp/.font-unix

On Friday 02 January 2004 22:33, HarryH wrote:
> Mark,
> I checked for the file and did see fs7100.  I did the xfs start and it said
> "OK".  I tried startx and just the same message as below.  I then rechecked
> for the .font-unix/fs7100 several times and ways and the file is no longer
> there.
>

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Street" <jet at sonic.net>
> To: <talk at nblug.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 9:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [NBLUG/talk] Cannot get XWindows to start
>
> > Hmmm, try a start
> >
> > service xfs start
> >
> > The font server creates its socket in /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100
> >
> > If the permissions are not correct on /tmp xfs cannot create the file.


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