startx启动图形界面失败的几个解决方法

很多linux用户有如此一个惨痛经历。当你和平常一样登陆和输入这可爱的startx时，你只是接收到错误信息。

Many of us gnu/linux users have had such a terrible experience. When you
很多linux用户有如此一个惨痛经历。当你
login and type the sweet startx as usual, you only receive scrolling lines
和平常一样登陆和输入这可爱的startx时，你只是接收到
of error messages. One copy of the error message is usually stored in
错误信息。错误通常存储在
/var/log/XFree86.0.log. If you can access the log file, you will notice
/var/log/XFree86.0.log。如果你读取这个日志文件，你将会注意到
the last lines of the file may look like this:
文件的最后一行通常如这样：
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

I have to admit that I was in panic when I saw this message in the first
我不得不承认我感到恐慌当我最初几次看到这些信息。
several times. As an intermediate user of linux system, I was not so
作为一个中级的linux系统用户，我感到用命令控制台拨号和用lynx冲浪不
comfortable using text console for modem dialup and surfing with lynx. So
舒服冲浪。所以
I had to spend a lot of time on another box and use Google to search for
我不得不花费很多时间在另一台电脑的使用Google在网上搜索帮助。
help on web. It was amazing that so many people like me have this exact
另人感到意外的是如此多人像我一样拥有如此
terrible experience and those replies in web forums and mailing lists
恐怖的经历和那些网上论坛和邮件列表的答复
generally offer more sympathy than real help. Using our common sense and
一般提供更多的同情心而不是真正的帮助。用我们一般的理解和
some research, most of us can figure out this failure has something to do
研究，我们大部分可以判断这是X字体服务的失败。
with X font server.

After having done a little more research, now I believe that this failure
做完进一步的研究之后，我现在相信这
may not be so serious as it looks. Please follow me by doing the steps
不像人们想象中的那么严重。请跟着我做下面的这些步骤，
below, in most of the cases you will get your X windows starting up again.
在大部分的案例中你将可以重新进入X windows。
Note: The following examples run on my Red Hat box. But I believe they are
注意：这些例子在我的Red Hat系统上。但我相信他们
general enough to be used for other distributions.
通常足够应用在其它发行版上。

1. Check if the X font server is running.
1、检查X字体服务是否正在运行。

Some people like me tend to suspect it is caused by bugs in the X font