<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face='Arial' color=#000000 size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hello-</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am running mandrake linux 10.1 on a system I setup about 1 month ago.</FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have not had any problem on the system until today when the</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>X server suddenly crashed. When I tried to restart it, it failed with</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the messages:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Could not init font element unix/:-1, removing from list!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I rebooted, got the same message. I ran the font server in the foreground,<BR>not as a daemon, so I could see it's output. At start up it said:<BR><BR>_FontTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.font-unix) failed, errno = 13<BR>_FontTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local<BR><BR>13 is permission denied, but why would it get this on /tmp, which is world writable:<BR><BR># ls -la /tmp<BR>total 12<BR>drwxrwxrwt   3 root root 4096 Jul 27 11:04 ./<BR>drwx------    19 root root 4096 Jul 26 15:01 ../<BR>drwxrwxrwt   2 root root 4096 Jul 27 11:00 .X11-unix/<BR><BR>Anyone have any clues?<BR><BR>-larry<BR></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>