http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21468432 en Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:17:45 EDT Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:17:45 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,21468495 kleeman : Sounds like you have at least partial file corruption to me. What distro are you using?

You could try reinstalling the missing pieces e.g. for Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libfreetype6

until you regain a working system but it may be that the only safe method is a reinstall. Usually you can ensure /home is not changed so things are not too severe...
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So I logged in and typed:
startx

It then returns:
/usr/bin/X11/X: error while loading shared libraries: libfreetype.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory giving up.

xinit: No such file or directory (errno2): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno3): Server error.

Can someone please help me with this error. I would prefer to repair this somehow rather than having to reinstall the whole OS. Thanks in advance.
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