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Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
Bug reassigned from package `gdm' to `xbase-clients'.
severity 302685 important
Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
Severity set to `important
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Steve Langasek wrote:
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 03:19:28 -0700
From: Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
Resent-Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 10:33:01 UTC
Resent-From: Debian BTS [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Leszek,
You wrote in your report that
I added gdm back in - it was complaining that /var/lib/gdm already exists,
and it gave some other warning, and voilla, once again I could log onto X
as 'leszek'.
It's not clear to me whether log onto X here means running startx, or
logging in using
Subject: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.6-1
Severity: grave
I decided to 'dpkg -P gdm' yesterday and 'startx' wont start X any more
when issued by normal user 'leszek'. ( root can start it )
X server starts, ( I added a 'echo Got here! ~/startx' to ~/.xinitrc
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:01:38PM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote:
Subject: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.6-1
Severity: grave
I decided to 'dpkg -P gdm' yesterday and 'startx' wont start X any more
when issued by normal user 'leszek'. ( root can
I once again purged gdm, tried to 'startx' as a normal user 'leszek' - no
success. For a brief moment I get to see this gray screen with the
hourglass, but after some ~1/2 a second X server exits.
I added another normal user and 'startx' - no problems.
I added gdm back in - it was complaining
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 05:08:22PM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote:
I once again purged gdm, tried to 'startx' as a normal user 'leszek' - no
success. For a brief moment I get to see this gray screen with the
hourglass, but after some ~1/2 a second X server exits.
I added another normal
Can you also confirm that XFree86 always works, independent of whether
gdm is installed or not, and independent of what user runs it?
ok, I've got 3 users here: 'root' , 'leszek' and 'blah' ( which is just a
dummy user created to test startx and XFree86 )
I purged gdm again, killed the X
On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 06:51:37PM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote:
Can you also confirm that XFree86 always works, independent of whether
gdm is installed or not, and independent of what user runs it?
ok, I've got 3 users here: 'root' , 'leszek' and 'blah' ( which is just a
dummy user
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/log | grep XFree
-rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 40196 Apr 3 00:44 XFree86.0.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 rootroot 40078 Apr 3 00:43 XFree86.0.log.old
this is not a problem since X is setuid root (which means it start with root
permissions whatever user
to answer your questions, Justin,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var | grep log
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 3 13:49 log
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ whereis XFree86
XFree86: /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 /usr/bin/X11/XFree86
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/ | grep X
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root7860
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