Re: An experiment in backup

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:

[snipped.  I have xfce4 and lightdm]

>> Have you looked at the logs? Especially Xorg.0.log and xsessions-errors.
>
> Xorg logs seem normal
> I don't see any xsessions-errors file

~/.xsessions-errors

Aha!  something that may help.  A bunch of stanzas like this:

Xsession: X session started for kevin at Sat Jan 17 10:42:34 PST 2015
localuser:kevin being added to access control list
openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at :0
Script for ibus started at run_im.
Script for auto started at run_im.
Script for default started at run_im.
Unable to create /home/kevin/.dbus/session-bus
Script for ibus started at run_im.
Script for auto started at run_im.
Script for default started at run_im.
x-session-manager[1414]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry....

>> Can you launch X after logging in to the console?
>
> I don't know how.

You can check that the basic functionality of X is OK with
xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- /usr/bin/X :0 -nolisten tcp vt01
(assuming that you're on tty1 when launching X)

Otherwise, you can start X with
xinit [...]
startx [...]
service lightdm [re]start

 

These all fail and add another stanza to the .xsession-errors file

 

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