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In X Sessions to a Solaris server, the font server “xfs” crashes. Why?

April 26, 2017crashes font server sessions Solaris XFS

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In X Sessions to a Solaris server, the font server “xfs” crashes. Why?

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If you do X sessions to a Solaris server, and you find that your sessions are no longer opening up new windows, chances are the font server on the Solaris host has crashed. This is a known bug in Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 when you have about 2 dozen X terminals sessions running. The fix is to move the font server to a different OS and point your JavaStations there, or to upgrade your Solaris to the 2.7 11/99 maintenance release or Solaris 8 which both (apparently) have fixes to this problem.