Control: tag -1 moreinfo unreproducible On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 15:12:12 +0200, Hermann Vosseler wrote: > Package: x11-common > Version: 1:7.7+7 > Severity: important > File: /etc/X11/Xsession > > Dear Maintainer, > > encountered an insidious problem on a fresh install of Debian/Stable. > > * did a fresh install, wiping out and reformatting my old system partition > (booted from the official XFCE image for amd64) > * worked for half a day, started integrating customisations from my old > system, like aliasses, profile, mounts > * changed the hostname (edit /etc/hostname and all other places I found with > grep in /etc, then used hostnamectrl to set it, reboot) > * unable to start desktop from ligthdm greeter > > Symptoms: > * after entering the password, X stops (screen gets black). Then lightdm > restarts > * the journal shows nothing special (some warings and errors I see always). > * Just that X terminates immediately when executing Xsession > > Remedy: > Found Bug 748944 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748944 > The symptoms reported there are identical (also, my .xsession-errors was empty) > > Indeed, my Xsession was not executable. > chmod a+x > Problem solved, XFCE starts normal > x11-common clearly installs Xsession as executable, I don't think it's responsible if something else breaks it. Cheers, Julien
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