XFS (again sorry!)

[Charles Harris]

Dear all,

After my previous adventures with the XFS were kindly answered, could anyone shed any light on the following.

I have set up the font directories, ammended the xfs config files and done everything else suggested here previously, however................

Upon giving the server a ./xfs start (in /sbin/init.d/) it returns the following error which I can't get around!

/usr/bin/X11/xfs error: Fatal font server error!
/usr/bin/X11/xfs error: Cannot establish any listening sockets

./xfs[27]: 12432 Abort

I assumed that it might need an inetd -c and a port adding in /etc/services, but this proved fruitless. I did remember to set the rc.config.d/xfs to a one though ;-)

Once again, any tips / comments or how-to pointers greatly appreciated!!!!!

-ChaZ-

[Charles Slivkoff · Accepted solution]

Is "xfs" already running?

# ps -ef|grep xfs

If so, you'll need to stop it first.

Otherwise, make sure that /var/spool/sockets has permissions of 777. Also, "xfs" defaults to using port 7100, but the HP-UX startup script overrides this to use 7000.

If you have a copy of lsof, try this:

# lsof -i tcp:7000
# lsof -i tcp:7100

If you see an entry like:

...... TCP *:7000

and it's not "xfs", then something else is using the port.

If you don't have "lsof", you can try:

# netstat -an |grep 7000

looking for:

tcp ..... *.7000 .... *.* .... LISTEN

Unfortunately, this won't mention the PID or proc name.

"lsof" is available form one of the HP-UX SW Porting Archives:

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/lsof-4.55/

[Charles Harris]

Good work!!! I was loosing my rag and didn't check the obvious!!! - XFS was indeed running, thanks for the tips!

Best regards,


-ChaZ-