From: Benjamin Howard Lewis (blewis@shell.portal.com)
Date: 09/27/93


From: blewis@shell.portal.com (Benjamin Howard Lewis)
Subject: Re: [Rev.] startx won't start x..
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 08:40:53 GMT

isc10411@leonis.nus.sg (Chia Chien Wei) writes:

>CHIA CHIEN WEI (isc10411@leonis.nus.sg) wrote:
>: When I do a startx, problem occurs and here is what I got:

>: ==================================================================
>: PEXExtensionINit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M

>: failed to set default font path '/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,
>: /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Type1,/usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,
>: /usr/X386/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/'

>: Fatal server error: Could not open default font 'fixed' because FontPath
>: is invalid.

>: xinit: No such file or directory (error 2): unexpected signal 13

>: ====================================================================

>Hi

> I am overwhelmed by the response of all those netters who have
>contributed one way or another in helping me to solve the above
>problem. Thanks again guys!
> Well I would like to share with the rest of you how the above
>problems are solved. The first if the PEX error... it turns out
>that the SLS package does not include the PEX package. I have to
>download it from the the ftp site and extract it into the proper
>directory.

Out of curiosity, where did you find the PEX package? I've looked
in the usual places (sunsite, tsx-11, ftp.cdrom), but was unable to
find anything that looked likely.

        -Ben Lewis