Fw: Having difficulty with Xserver.....

["Michael Small" <smallmid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

X started one time only and subsequent attempts gave the

ERROR MESSAGE:
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


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
>To: klug@klug.armintl.com <klug@klug.armintl.com>
>Date: Friday, April 09, 1999 7:57 PM
>Subject: Re: Having difficulty with Xserver.....
>
>
>>On Apr 9,  3:48pm, Michael Small wrote:
>>> Subject: Having difficulty with Xserver.....
>>> After playing with the XF86Config file, I finally got the system to
boot.
>>>
>>
>>You got X to start successfully?
>>
>>> 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
>>
>>So this error message was when you tried to start Afterstep,  or when you
>tried
>>to start X?
>>
>>>
>>> Any ideas on how to shutdown FreefontPath?
>>>
>>
>>No idea what that message means.  There is no process called FreefontPath
>on
>>any Linux machine I've seen (hundreds).  Seems most likely to be a message
>from
>>a xlib call that has something to do with fonts (Bruce?).  Make sure your
>fonts
>>are correctly installed and the directorys have the correct permissions.
>Also
>>do a mkfontdir on each font directory as root from a shell.
>>
>>
>