[wellylug] X windows crashes

[David Antliff]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Peter Dawson wrote:
> On issuing a startx from a user account X seems to go away and do it's 
> thang for a normal amount of time and then exits with a message on the 
> console

What do you have in your .xinitrc? Are you accidentally starting your 
window manager with an '&' and no 'wait'? Typically, your .xinitrc would 
have something like this as the last line:

exec /usr/bin/fluxbox

or

/usr/bin/fluxbox &
PID=$!
...
wait $PID


> Waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE 
> "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing

That's not really relevant I think you'll find. The X server is already 
closing when this is displayed.

> I've had a look at the log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log and there are no 
> error statements apparent (ie flagged by (EE)) and the above error 
> message terminates the log right after X reports success insetting up 
> the keyboard and mouse. The xorg.conf and log file are way too large to 
> reasonably post here.

I don't think there's an error - I think it might be that you're not 
starting a persistent process and the X server is just finishing, as it's 
designed to do.

> Any ideas where I might start working out what I've (probably) done wrong?

As above, what does your ~/.xinitrc look like? Post it here if you like.

-- 
David.