Mysterious 'startx' failure

[KAeL]

> The only indications I could find that something might be wrong are
> messages concerning the font server:
> "Could not init font path element unix:/7100, removing from list".
> 
> And a list of warnings about 'font renderers' already being registered
> at priority 0. ('.pcf', etc.)

Hi,
could you tell us what is in /var/log/XFree86.0.log ?

What you see on your screen are juste warnings, I think there should be 
an error which can be seen in  the log file



KAeL.