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.
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