Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

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Subject: Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 12:39:23 -0300
Message-id: <[🔎] 20170619153923.GD22428@khazad-dum.debian.net>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 19062017151503.b8baef78ed80@desktop.copernicus.org.uk>
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On Mon, 19 Jun 2017, Brian wrote:
> The same experience as yours on tty1 to tty6. Except a couple of days
> ago when I used nouveau.modeset=0 on GRUB's linux line and got what is
> in the subject header.

Kernel modeset must be enabled non-root X to work, as you found out...

-- 
  Henrique Holschuh

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References:
- [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
  - From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
- Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
  - From: Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
- Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
  - From: Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>

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