[gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8

[gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8

[Nadav Horesh]

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After X upgrade I can not start X properly: gnome session falls back to text mode, and xfce ended with an empty nonfunctional desktop.
The error message I get:

FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing

I tried to re-emerge  media-fonts/font-misc-misc
but without success.

Any idea what can I do to fix this font problem?

system: Dual P4 (IA32), gcc4.1.1 

$uname -a

Linux nadav 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 7 12:54:47 IDT 2006 i686 Intel(R) XEON(TM) CPU 2.20GHz GNU/Linux

video card: nvidia 440.
gnome: 2.14.2



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Re: [gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8

[David Corbin]

On Friday 21 July 2006 16:03, Nadav Horesh wrote:
> After X upgrade I can not start X properly: gnome session falls back to
> text mode, and xfce ended with an empty nonfunctional desktop. The error
> message I get:
>
> FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1;
> fixing


I had this problem, too.  In my case, it was misdirection.  look further up in 
the startx output.  I found a bunch of stale 'files' in /etc/X11/Xsession.  I 
cleaned out all the crap from previous KDE versions, etc., and it worked 
fine.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8

[PaulNM]

David Corbin wrote:
> On Friday 21 July 2006 16:03, Nadav Horesh wrote:
>> After X upgrade I can not start X properly: gnome session falls back to
>> text mode, and xfce ended with an empty nonfunctional desktop. The error
>> message I get:
>>
>> FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1;
>> fixing
> 
> 
> I had this problem, too.  In my case, it was misdirection.  look further up in 
> the startx output.  I found a bunch of stale 'files' in /etc/X11/Xsession.  I 
> cleaned out all the crap from previous KDE versions, etc., and it worked 
> fine.

I agree, I had issues with getting X setup on a new machine, and thought
that was the problem (refcount).  The issue was fixed, and X works, but
I still get that error. I even get that message on my Debian Etch machine!

I'd also check to make sure xorg-xserver is installed.

PaulNM
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8

[Nadav Horesh]

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1. I tried some cleanup of the /etc/X11/Sessions directory: no effect
2. the startx output:
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X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 i686
Current Operating System: Linux nadav 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jun 7
12:54:47 IDT 2006 i686
Build Date: 23 July 2006
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jul 24 15:28:27 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
SESSION_MANAGER=local/nadav:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6567

waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" ref count is 2, should be 1; fixing.


Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':0.0';
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the window manager.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

the Xorg.0.log  shows no other error.

 please help


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Re: [gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8

[Richard Fish]

On 7/24/06, Nadav Horesh <nadavh2000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> the Xorg.0.log  shows no other error.

How about ~/.xsession-errors?

-Richard

PS. please don't post html messages.  Plain-text only please.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8

[Nadav Horesh]

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> How about ~/.xsession-errors?

It is empty (0 bytes)

Nadav


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