X Server wont start

Your X Server may fail to start and give you errors and not being able to find default fonts.
You can fix this by re-initializing the X Server font directories.
To resolve.....
chmod 1777 /tmp edit /etc/init.d/xfs
change REGEN_FONTS_DIR=no
to REGEN_FONTS_DIR=yes

then do a service xfs restart
then reconfigure your default X configuration file
redhat-config-xfree86 --reconfig
type startx to bring back the gui!!

change REGEN_FONTS_DIR variable back to "no"

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