Re: startx stopped working - xinit OK
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 07:32:22AM +0100, 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.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this? Perhaps I should submit a bug report.
>
> Anthony
while this is fixed you can start xorg with startx -- :1
this works for me.
best regards,
Michael
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