Re: X problems after an update
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote:
> Well, I used dselect to update the available packages from SLINK (frozen).
> And it listed a bunch as updated required. So, I let it install them, but I
> didn't really look at what they were. My X was working before all this, but
> now after doing the update, it no longer works. The error I'm getting is the
> following:
>
> FreeFontPath: FTP "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonta/misc:unscaled" refcount it 2,
> should be 1;fixing.
>
> Now, I'm not sure if this is the error that is causing the server to shut
> down. but it is doing so. Before the error hits me, it shows "waiting for X
> server to shut down" Then displays that refcount error. The last line that
> appears during startup is "(--) SVGA: Generic SpeedUps selected (Flags=0x30)
>
> I re-ran XF86Setup to respecify all my setup options, but it still comes
> back with the same error. When I call "startx" it goes into X for a second,
> and jumps back.
I just upgraded myself and have run into quite a few problems. First
see if the file ~/.xsessions_errors (?) is produced. For me there was
a shell programming error in /etc/X11/Xsession that needed to be
corrected.
--
Jean Pierre
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