Re: startx stopped working - xinit OK
On 24 May 2008, Michael Muster wrote:
> 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
>
Thanks to all for suggestions. I applied the fix given in the bug report
pointed to by Sven and this is working for me.
Anthony
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