Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 03 Aug 2000 23:11:59 +0200 | From | Jorge Nerin <> | Subject | Re: X Server Crash |
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"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Robinson, Daniel wrote: > > > Hi all.... > > > > I am getting the following error when I try to startx... (KDE on Mandrake > > 7.0 2.3.42) > > > > ---------------------- > > _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 > > failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' > > Fatal server error: > > could not open default font 'fixed' > > Looks like the "real" fatal error is the UNIX socket connect. > This was errno=2 (ENOENT) . This is a strange return value for > connect(). > > Is this a newly-built kernel? Did you enable UNIX domain sockets? > If so, this might be related to another recently-reported UNIX > socket problem. > > Cheers, > Dick Johnson >
This is because / is full, usually 5% of the space is reserved for root, and df tells the amount free for users, connect() needs 1 inode free to succed, so if you are not root and issue connect() with 0 blocks free connect() will fail, so you only need to have free space.
-- Jorge Nerin <jnerin@svalero.es> <comandante@zaralinux.com>
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