Re: X dies immediately after starting
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:41:14PM -0500, searcher wrote:
>
> Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
> > Yesterday I exited X and the next time I tried to restart it, it died
> > without any error messages. I tried switching to a different window
> > manager with update-alternatives, but that made no difference. I am
> > running woody and there have been no X upgrades since the switch to
> > testing, so I am at a loss to figure this out. I use xserver-svga,
> > since my Cirrus card is only partially supported by XFree 4.01.
> >
> > What is really strange about this is that I can run win4lin with the
> > 'fwin' command, indicating that at least part of X is functional.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Not sure if this will do it, but you can try:
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> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common
Strange, that dies with the message
mv: cannot create regular file 'etc/X11/Xwrapper.config': No such file
or directory.
Possibly dpkg-reconfigure is broken(??). It saved the old file with a
~at the end of the filename and created a temp file, which was
identical.
I copied the temp file to Xwrapper.config and found that I am able to
run startx as root, but if I try as a regular user, X dies immediately
after starting with no error message.
Xwrapper.config says:
allowed_users=console
nice_value=-10
This *should* allow any console user to run X.
Bob
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