Re: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections........
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:15:30PM +1000, charlie wrote:
> If I log in as root, all works as it should and the GUI starts as it
> should.
Does it look exactly the same as if you had logged in as yourself?
I just tried startx as root and amazingly I get a GUI. (Never used to,
got a message about can't startx as root or something similar.)
But it looks completely different to the GUI I get when I startx as me.
And yes I am running fvwm.
> I have had this problem intermittently as user for some time. But
> rebooting usually gets me back into the GUI after the startx command.
Now you can't startx as yourself permanently, it fails everytime?
> I'm ready to reinstall, but maybe it can be fixed, if someone has any
> ideas they would be appreciated.
For a start, please post exact output of following commands.
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ls -al .x*
grep -v \^# .xsessionrc
ls -al .fvwm/
startx
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If the startx command gives a blank screen, try pressing alt-f7, or
alt-f8 if no good. Does pressing ctrl-alt-f1 take you back to the
console?
If you get back to the console copy and paste the output, it should be
the results of you typing startx, if you typed startx from tty1
Once you are at a console, even if you have to reboot to get one:
Type the following commands as root: (please copy 'n' paste exact
output.
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grep \(EE\) /var/log/Xorg.0.log
lspci -vv | grep VGA
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