Error starting xfce

[Brian J. Tarricone]

so.... have you done what the X output tells you?  have you gone and set 
up fontconfig?  are you following the LFS manual?  at this point, this 
isn't an xfce problem, it's a problem with your (lack of) configuration.

    -brian

Dark Shadow wrote:

>I am trying to get xfce going and have got it all compiled but when I
>try to startx I get it to run for a few seconds with a picture of a
>mouse and the name xfce under it then X just quits back to the
>console.
>
>Please if you know what I need to do (don't assume I have anything
>installed since this is a "Linux From Scratch" that was only started 3
>days ago) on that note I do have fontconfig installed but if it
>requires more configuration then "configure&&make&&make install" I
>have not done it.
>
>
>
>X Window System Version 6.8.0
>Release Date: 8 September 2004
>X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8
>Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.8.1 i686 [ELF] 
>Current Operating System: Linux shadowdesk 2.6.8.1 #1 Sun Sep 5 18:23:43 MDT 200
>4 i686
>Build Date: 06 September 2004
>        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
>        to make sure that you have the latest version.
>Module Loader present
>Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
>        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Thu Sep  9 00:10:59 2004
>(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>
>(II) Initializing extension GLX
>Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from li
>st!
>Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/, removing from 
>list!
>No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
>library is not correctly configured. You may need to
>edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
>about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
>page and on http://fontconfig.org
>** Message: Cannot connect to session manager
>** Message: xfdesktop: running without session manager
>No fonts found; this probably means that the fontconfig
>library is not correctly configured. You may need to
>edit the fonts.conf configuration file. More information
>about fontconfig can be found in the fontconfig(3) manual
>page and on http://fontconfig.org
>The application 'xfce-mcs-manager' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
>most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
>the application.
>
>waiting for X server to shut down
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