RedHat 6.0 Kernel 2.2.5-15 on i586 Hitachi Pentium I 133MMX Laptop Started out as not being able to logout of gnome using menu item on GUI. I used xterm window and "shutdown -h now' instead. Progressed to not being able to use any menu item, and then not being able to start X. Has occurred at three times. Only solution re-format and completely re-intall linux. Makes RedHat totally useless for me. Error Output: _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 failed to se default font path 'unix/: -1' Fatal server error: could not default font 'fixed' When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full server output, not just the last messages _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111 giving up. Xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to Xserver Xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. ------- Additional Comments From 09/17/99 18:58 ------- The exact same thing happened to me, except I am using a AMD K6-2 300MHz. Since it gave the error about fonts, I checked up and found that xfs was NOT running. Logging in as root and executing "xfs" would then allow me to start X, but I could only use X as root--trying to start X from any other user resulted in the gnome blue background loading but nothing else. Since then I have reinstalled Redhat and used only KDE and have had no problems (I think it is something in GNOME).