Re: Today's disaster with xorg update
On 16 Apr 2006, Toshiro wrote:
> > > 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.
>
I found that what was blocking things was that xorg objected to my
$HOME/.xinitrc. Removing this makes X come up but there is no icewm or,
if there is, it doesn't read its $HOME configuration files.
Anthony
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