Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid
On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:44:10 +0000 (UTC)
John DeVito <john.devito@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I ran into an issue today where X is not working after andupgrade of
> Stretch. The pervasive errorI am seeing is related to dbus-core.
> Xorg.0.log says ... Failed to connect to
> socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket. Manual attempts to navigate
> to that directory shows that /var/run exists, but the dbus directory
> is not below 'run'. If I try to run startx it briefly brings up the
> initial screen but then X crashes and results in a command prompt
> environment again. I am also getting errors when trying to use apt,
> saying that no sources can be resolved. Seems like this latest round
> of updates really introduced some issues.
1. Your subject says sid and in the message you say stretch. Which one
did you upgrade?
2. Do you have systemd intalled? There was a recent update to
xorg-server in sid, which makes it run under a regular user instead of
root, so now it relies on logind. If you do not have systemd installed,
you need to install xserver-xorg-legacy, which contains the setuid
wrapper used to run X as root (as before).
Of course, your apt problem can't be related to this upgrade.
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Best wishes,
Alex S.
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