Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

[Toshiro <toshiro@internet.com.uy>]

> >    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"

Did you remove everything from X (/etc/X11, ...) before reinstalling?  I did 
it this way and worked for me.

Toshiro.