Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........

[charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au>]

Hello Everyone,

I have a strange situation on a fully updated Debian Wheezy Toshiba
laptop.

Using fvwm I startx as user and 

get a blank screen

I hit the power off button and the screen shows this message before
turning off:

waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections

no protocol specified

no protocol specified

If I log in as root, all works as it should and the GUI starts as it
should.

I have googled and though I find some references to the problem,
including a bug report. Cannot find anything that is specific to my
own problem, or maybe don't understand what is being discussed.

I have had this problem intermittently as user for some time. But
rebooting usually gets me back into the GUI after the startx command.

I'm not certain if this isn't a permission problem that has developed
for some reason.

The update earlier today I think, did upgrade the xorg packages? Maybe
nothing to do with that though?

I thought at first it was hardware breaking down but
when it works without a glitch as root user, that would appear to rule
out a hardware problem.

I'm ready to reinstall, but maybe it can be fixed, if someone has any
ideas they would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Charlie
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