Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

2017-06-20 Thread Brian
On Mon 19 Jun 2017 at 14:43:08 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > Greg Wooledge composed on 2017-06-19 11:05 (UTC-0400): > > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:00:32AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > . > >> I have a dozen machines with Stretch installed, most with Jessie and/or > >> Sid as > >> well. Only Stretc

Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

2017-06-19 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2017-06-19 11:05 (UTC-0400): > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:00:32AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: . >> I have a dozen machines with Stretch installed, most with Jessie and/or Sid >> as >> well. Only Stretch on host big41 produces the subject problem. . > According to a previou

Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

2017-06-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 19 Jun 2017, Brian wrote: > 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. Kernel modeset must be enabled non-root X to work, as you found out... -- Henrique Holschu

Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

2017-06-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 11:00:32AM -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > I have a dozen machines with Stretch installed, most with Jessie and/or Sid as > well. Only Stretch on host big41 produces the subject problem. According to a previous message in this thread, it could be triggered by a specific kernel

Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

2017-06-19 Thread Felix Miata
Greg Wooledge composed on 2017-06-19 09:29 (UTC-0400): . > 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

Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

2017-06-19 Thread Brian
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 > > witho

Re: [Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

2017-06-19 Thread Greg Wooledge
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

[Stretch] startx: /bin/sh: 0: Can't open /usr/bin/X; xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

2017-06-18 Thread Felix Miata
>From the release notes: 2.2.10. The Xorg server no longer requires root In the stretch version of Xorg, it is possible to run the Xorg server as a regular user rather than as root. This reduces the risk of privilege escalation via bugs in the X server. However, it has some require

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused SOLVED)

2012-05-07 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Mon, 07 May 2012 20:50:01 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Du, 06 mai 12, 22:23:56, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > > > anyway, I couldn't get the X back up until I created that /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > file again. (a very simple one) but after that, all was once again well. > > If you want any hel

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused SOLVED)

2012-05-07 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 06 mai 12, 22:23:56, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > anyway, I couldn't get the X back up until I created that /etc/X11/xorg.conf > file again. (a very simple one) but after that, all was once again well. If you want any help with this please attach the full /var/log/Xorg.0.log when you try to

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused SOLVED)

2012-05-06 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Sun, 06 May 2012 11:30:02 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > If you did fine without one before it should work now as well. It is curious to be sure. But when I tried to edit the /etc/X11/xorg.conf 'after the dist-upgrade' when startx failed to start the nvidia driver, guess what vim declared it w

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused SOLVED)

2012-05-06 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 04 mai 12, 20:07:57, Charles Kroeger wrote: > After the dist-upgrade on sid during the 'transitions' I noticed there was > 'no' /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all so I created one If you did fine without one before it should work now as well. Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions amon

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused SOLVED)

2012-05-04 Thread Charles Kroeger
After the dist-upgrade on sid during the 'transitions' I noticed there was 'no' /etc/X11/xorg.conf file at all so I created one I also added the meta package: xorg also there was no xserver-xorg package after the dist-upgrade this was the reason I was seeing in my error message after startx: /u

Re: dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused)

2012-05-02 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Jochen Spieker (02/05/2012): > Incidentally, apt-get dist-upgrade is less disastrous in this case. It > only suggests to remove xserver-xorg-video-all, > xserver-xorg-video-s3virge and xserver-xorg-video-tdfx while keeping > all important X related packages for my system. Background: http://blo

dist-upgrades on sid (was: X server: connection refused)

2012-05-02 Thread Jochen Spieker
Bob Proulx: > > I noticed today that an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' in Sid wanted to remove > xserver-xorg and much of the rest of the X system. That's why I habitually only run 'apt-get upgrade', as it will never remove any packages and you can use it more or less blindly in order to receive unproble

Re: X server: connection refused

2012-05-01 Thread Tom H
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > After a dist-upgrade to an AMD64 wheezy/sid installation I get the following: > > $startx > /etc/X11/xinit/sderverrc: 3: exec: /usr/bin/X: not found > > xinit: giving up > xinit: unable to connect to X server: co

Re: X server: connection refused

2012-05-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Indulekha wrote: > Charles Kroeger wrote: > > $startx > > /etc/X11/xinit/sderverrc: 3: exec: /usr/bin/X: not found > > Appears you no longer have the xserver installed. > Upgrade get interrupted, or finish with errors perhaps? I noticed today that an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' in Sid wanted to remove

Re: X server: connection refused

2012-05-01 Thread Indulekha
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:53:55PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012 02:00:02 +0200 > Indulekha wrote: > > > > Appears you no longer have the xserver installed. > > Upgrade get interrupted, or finish with errors perhaps? > > > Thanks for your response however I'm not sure it

Re: X server: connection refused

2012-05-01 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 02 May 2012 02:00:02 +0200 Indulekha wrote: > Appears you no longer have the xserver installed. > Upgrade get interrupted, or finish with errors perhaps? Thanks for your response however I'm not sure it isn't something else as all the nividia-glx 295.40-1 sources and drivers inclusive

Re: X server: connection refused

2012-05-01 Thread Indulekha
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 06:13:51PM -0500, Charles Kroeger wrote: > After a dist-upgrade to an AMD64 wheezy/sid installation I get the following: > > $startx > /etc/X11/xinit/sderverrc: 3: exec: /usr/bin/X: not found > > xinit: giving up > xinit: unable to connect to X serve

X server: connection refused

2012-05-01 Thread Charles Kroeger
After a dist-upgrade to an AMD64 wheezy/sid installation I get the following: $startx /etc/X11/xinit/sderverrc: 3: exec: /usr/bin/X: not found xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: connection refused xinit: server error I had a look at /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc #!/bin/sh exec