Cannot start X - font server problem

From: Roman Smid (gollum53_at_seznam.cz)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 09:59:43 GMT

Hi,
I've done fresh installation of RH9 on our server. Everything went fine
until I used up2date, updated everything except kernel packages and
rebooted. Now the machine cannot start X windows, the X server cannot
connect to Font server. The font server is running, I can telnet to it. The
X server says:
Could not init the font path element unix:/7100, removing from list!

Any ideas whats going on ?

Thanx
Roman Smid

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