On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@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)" Dunno if that is what actually stops it, but it the only possibly relevant error I see. (Other errors are just complaining about the old font dirs and unloading libinput for things like the speaker event file - which happen even when it successfully runs as root.) Thanks, Kelly Clowers