I need an email app for my phone that doesn't force top posting. Gah! Anyways. Ok you can login to VT2. Startx doesn't work. Could be the display manager is locking a resource you need.
startxfce4: X server already running on display :1 Is a clue. Could maybe only need to tell it to use display :2 They start at 0 so I'm curious what else might be running. Try shutting off that service and see if you can manually start x then. Could be a problem with X such as a driver. But it looks like xfce4 is running in X already. The EGl error might be a clue. That is hardware graphics acceleration. Maybe the login screen doesn't need acceleration, but the full desktop does. Which graphics driver are you using? Do you have options like open source vs nvidia official, or perhaps booting into an old kernel? On Sat, Jan 5, 2019, 6:15 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected] wrote: > On 1/5/19 5:12 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > If your goal is learning then it's worth it. If your goal was just having > > it work I'm not sure you would have picked Slackware as your distro so > I'm > > going with learning. > > A little of both. I've been using the easy to install and run stuff for > something over 10 years, but lately there have been unresolved issues, > mostly minor annoyances. So, hearing that Slackware still used the old > school approach instead of Systemd, I thought I'd try learning more. It > always made sense to me that everything should be in a file somewhere, > and those should be editable and fixable. > > > Being able to login via ssh means the password isn't corrupted. Being > able > > to type a username probably means the keyboard input is fine. What's > left? > > > > PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules), or the display manager are the > only > > ones that come to mind. > > > > Can you switch VT (virtual terminal) and login from the console? > > Yes. > > > Something > > like Ctrl-Alt-F2 ... If you can that indicates another part that isn't > > broken. If you get that far can you startX? > No. > > rsteff@ENU-2:~$startx > xauth: /home/rsteff/.serverauth.1274 does not exist > X.Org X Server 1.18.3 > Release Date: 2016-04-04 > X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 > Build Operating System: Slackware 14.2 Slackware Linux Project > Current Operating System: Linux ENU-2 4.4.157 #2 SMP Fri Sep 21 0:36:59 > CDT 2018 x86_64 > Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=dev000:\EFI\SLACKWARE\vmlinuz > root=/dev/sda2 vga=normal ro ro > Build Date: 18 October 2017 12:21:16PM > > Current version of pixman: 0.34.0 > Before reporting problems, check htp://wiki.x.org > to make sure that you have the latest version. > Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, > (++) from command line, (!!) notice, informational, > (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) Unknown. > (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.1.log", Time: Sat Jan 5 17:41:53 2019 > (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" > resize called 3200 1000 > /usr/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :1 > xfce4-session: error while loading shared libraries: libEGL.so.1 cannot > open shared object file: No such file or directory > xinit: connection to X serve lost > > waiting for X server to shut down (II) Server terminated successfully > (0). Closing log file > > rsteff:@ENU-2:~$ > > > > Could be a display manager problem. KDE likes to install KDM(KDE Display > > Manager) GNOME has GDM. There are a few others xfce has one it usually > > comes with. They can usually start the other desktops though. Try > replacing > > whatever display manager you have setup with a different one and see if > > that works. > > I have tried KDE Plasma Workspace, KDE Plasma Workspace (failsafe > session), XFCE Session, and Failsafe. The only one of those that worked > at all was Failsafe, and that for only a short while. > > From the > xauth: /home/rsteff/.serverauth.1274 does not exist > line it looks like I'm missing an important file. Is there a way to > properly create that file from the terminal, either the one I got with > Ctrl-Alt-F2 or from an ssh login? > > I just searched on "Slackware .serverauth.1274 does not exist" and found: > > > https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/xauth-file-home-user-serverauth-1436-does-not-exist-4175576123/ > > It talks about trouble with an nVidia driver. As I think about it, > that's about the time I started having this problem. I tried to use a > newer driver when I should have been using an older one. Would the > solution there of deleting all .serverauthXXX and .Xauthority files as > root be something I should do here? > > Thanks for showing me another way to look for the problem. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
