From: PaulNM <gentoo@paulscrap.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:29:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C1716F.6080006@paulscrap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607212013.12461.gentoo.org@machturtle.com>
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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2006-07-21 20:03 [gentoo-user] Can not start xorg 7.0 after upgrade from ver 6.8 Nadav Horesh
2006-07-22 0:13 ` David Corbin
2006-07-22 0:29 ` PaulNM [this message]
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2006-07-24 12:18 Nadav Horesh
2006-07-24 16:43 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-26 4:26 Nadav Horesh
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