On Mon 19 Jun 2017 at 09:29:40 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 05:53:43PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > When I try as ordinary user (on host big41), I get the subject message. > > Anyone > > know how to get startx to work in Stretch, either on :0, :1 or :2, with or > > without a greeter running (multi-user.targer vs. graphical.target)? > > I've been using startx on stretch for a couple months, with no problems. > I login as my non-root user on tty1, and run 'startx', and it just works.
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.