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

[Gary Threlkeld]

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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