Error starting xfce

[Dark Shadow]

I found my problem it turns out I ended up with 2 versions installed
so when I found a config file in /etc/fonts (was configured correctly)
I tried setting everything up there but it would not work then I
noticed I also had one in /usr/local/etc/fonts that was not configured
correctly but was the one that was being used so I fixed the config
and ran fc-cache then everything worked


On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 09:05:47 +0200, Jens Luedicke
<jens.luedicke at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi...
> 
> as a former LFS user, I found the BLFS book a good resource and
> help to set up most programs:
> 
> http://lfs.netservice-neuss.de/blfs/view/stable/
> 
> Jens
> 
> On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 02:00:14 -0500, Christopher
> 
> 
> <christopher.carroll at birch.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 01:20, 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.
> > >
> > That's all you need to do to install fontconfig - but next time you may
> > want to specify --sysconfdir=/etc to the configure script to be FHS
> > compliant, and since your running LFS you may want to use --prefix=/usr
> > instead of the default /usr/local.
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > 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
> >
> > You didn't say whether you tried editing your fontconfig configuration
> > like the message suggests.  If you haven't, you should do this.  After
> > installing fontconfig and X, I think I usually need to add my X font
> > paths to /etc/fonts/local.conf (yours may be in
> > /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf - not sure).
> >
> > This isn't really an xfce issue - so you might have better luck asking
> > on the blfs-support mailing list.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> 
> --
> Jens Luedicke <jens at irs-net.com>
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