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Bug#801401: cannot start X from the console command line



On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 19:08:03 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 15:48:09 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> >
> >> I just hit this bug as well.
> >>
> >> I have a bash script that sets the WM I choose (from when I was trying
> >> different ones - now I always choose "awesome"), and then does "exec
> >> xinit". Ultimately xinitrc is running the command "awesome" which
> >> starts Awesome WM. No idea what Awesome does internally, but it has
> >> always worked.
> >>
> > You need to make sure X is started on the current VT.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Julien
> 
> 
> Attempting startx makes it try the same VT, but it still fails with
> "xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not
> permitted)"
> 
What driver are you using?  Are you running systemd?  Please show your
Xorg log.

Thanks,
Julien

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