Re: startx stopped working - xinit OK
On 24 May 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-05-24 08:32 +0200, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > I've been using startx to start X for as long as I've been using Linux -
> > about 10 years or more. Yesterday it stopped working, giving an error
> > message about "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc - no such option". But xinit
> > runs as expected. This is on a laptop running Sid.
> >
> > I know that startx is just a front end to xinit and is not essential but
> > I'd like to understand what is happening. I had just done a large
> > upgrade so perhaps something happened there; I'd also been experimenting
> > with sshfs.
> >
> >
> > Googling didn't produce much. I tried commenting out the lines in startx
> > that refer to xserverrc but then other errors appeared.
>
> Google is not your best friend if you're running sid, the Debian BTS is:
> http://bugs.debian.org/xinit
>
> > Can anyone shed any light on this? Perhaps I should submit a bug report.
>
> Not necessary, since it had already been reported twice, as you can see.
>
> Sven
>
Thanks for the pointer - I should have looked there first.
Anthony
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