Re: Today's disaster with xorg update
On 16 Apr 2006, Toshiro wrote:
>
> > > (I suppose on the upside of all this massive breakage, I finally
> have a
>
> > > reason to figure out how X works. :-/)
>
> >
>
> > This is what happens if we stay long enough with Sid. Cheer up,
> that's
>
> > supposed to be the fun part :)
>
> Well, I've been using sid for years and I've never been in this state
> of chaos before; I had to uninstall all xorg related packages and
> install them again (I'm happy to have one local machine with
> apt-proxy, so I haven't wasted time downloading everything again :) ).
>
My experience too. I was on the verge of giving up and going back to
Testing, but decided to have one more go. I reinstalled everything and
reconfigured xserver-xorg.
No luck. At first it said that SecurityPolicy wasn't available. It was
nowhere on the system so I copied it from another computer and put it in
/etc/X11/xserver/SecurityPolicy.
That fixed that problem but I still get a message saying:
"FreefontPath: FPE "usr/share/fonts/X11/misc" refcount is 2, should be
1; fixing"
As this is the only thing that appears to be wrong (/var/log/Xorg.0.log
shows nothing), I presume that is what is stopping X from starting.
Has anyone any clue about this?
Anthony
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