Re:Trouble with X server

[Jeff Mayrand <jmayrand@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam, you wrote on 4/9/99 2:51:13 PM:

> playing with the XF86Config file, I finally got the system to boot.
>Then tried to run Afterstep and it failed.
>Error messages said:
>System stated having a problem shutting down FreeFontPath
>waiting for X server to shut down FreefontPath :FPE
>"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing
>Any ideas on how to shutdown FreefontPath?
>
>First start X without a window manager.  Does that work?  if so in the
>xterm do a xset fp rehash and try to start the window manager (say $ fvwm)
>for feeble view.  See if the problem is only with Afterstep or with any
>window manager?  You have the font installed?
>

This error message is not what is halting X.  Its a config problem
elsewhere... I have researched the hell out of the FreeFontPath Problem and
have yet
to locate an answer... Let me ask, what distribution are you running?
When I let the scripts configure the paths it worked for some odd reason...
 Are you
by any chance running SUSE? Send more information on your config
scripts...