Re: User cannot start X (device already taken)

2023-09-28 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 8:25 PM Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 11:22:56AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > > Running Devuan Chimaera > > In general, most people on this list run Debian. Sadly, any advice we > can give on Devuan is likely to be best endeavours only as many of >

Re: User cannot start X (device already taken)

2023-09-28 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 11:22:56AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > Running Devuan Chimaera > In general, most people on this list run Debian. Sadly, any advice we can give on Devuan is likely to be best endeavours only as many of us are not familiar with what Devuan may choose to do. [This is true

Re: User cannot start X (device already taken)

2023-09-28 Thread Curt
On 2023-09-28, Haines Brown wrote: > > > This is extract from Xorfg.0.log after user fails to start X > > ... > [ 49400.912] (II) UnloadModule: "libinput" > [ 49400.912] (II) seatd_libseat try close /dev/input/event18 (36:36) > [ 49400.912] (EE) [libseat/backend/logind.c:184] Could not stat fd 36

User cannot start X (device already taken)

2023-09-28 Thread Haines Brown
Running Devuan Chimaera Without doing anything unusual, suddenly can no longer start X, while root can do it. This is what is returned to terminal: ... (II) [libseat/backend/seatd.c: 64] Could not connect to socket /run/seat.sock: no such file or directory (II) [libseat/libseat.c: 76]

Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen crashes all VT's

2009-10-29 Thread John Magolske
Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a frozen state, crashing any VT that may be open. Any suggestions regarding what to look for? (More info appended below) * John Magolske listm...@b79.net [091024 16:26]: When I issue `startx`, X starts up in an immediately locked up

Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen crashes all VT's

2009-10-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:30:29 -0700, John Magolske wrote: Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a frozen state, crashing any VT that may be open. Any suggestions regarding what to look for? (More info appended below) * John Magolske [091024 16:26]: [...] I'm

Re: Cannot start X -- launches frozen crashes all VT's

2009-10-29 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:26:30 +0100 Florian Kulzer florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es wrote: On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:30:29 -0700, John Magolske wrote: Still can't get this to work...very perplexing. X launches in a frozen state, crashing any VT

Cannot start X

2009-10-24 Thread John Magolske
When I issue `startx`, X starts up in an immediately locked up state. I have to use Alt-SysRq-E to get out of the frozen X, at which point I notice the console is logged out (or somehow non-usable), and there is the following on the display: (EE) Failed to load module type 1 (module does not

nvidia quadro 280: cannot start x

2003-10-15 Thread Praveen Kallakuri
hi i am having trouble starting x with this nvidia quadro graphics card on a dell precision 360. i got the driver from nvidia's website and installed it. i really think its not a driver issue but something fundamental with X. this is a new debian installation and i have never run X on it

KDM cannot start X

2001-10-19 Thread Reto
Hi! I have Debian Sid installed with the current XFree86 and current drivers for my GeForce. The X Server runs fine, I can start kdm or xdm without any problems. But when I start one of them and it asks me for login, it is not able to start the WindowManager itself. Screen is black, then it

cannot start X

2001-03-04 Thread Aaron Maxwell
Hi, when I run startx, I get the following error: yomama[5]% startx X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. here it hangs, so I press ^C xinit: unexpected signal 2 yomama[6]% My .xinitrc is real simple: exec rxvt exec rxvt exec enlightenment I'm running a fresh woody,

Re: cannot start X

2001-03-04 Thread Kent West
Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi, when I run startx, I get the following error: yomama[5]% startx X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. here it hangs, so I press ^C xinit: unexpected signal 2 yomama[6]% My .xinitrc is real simple: exec rxvt exec rxvt exec enlightenment I'm

Re: cannot start X

2001-03-04 Thread John Galt
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common set permissions to Console Users Only On Sun, 4 Mar 2001, Aaron Maxwell wrote: Hi, when I run startx, I get the following error: yomama[5]% startx X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. here it hangs, so I press ^C xinit: unexpected signal 2

Re: Cannot start X - solved!

2000-08-21 Thread Michael L Ried
I found my problem when I ran: xinit 1xinit.log 21 X was wanting to run a xterm and I needed to still install xterm. Thanks for your help. On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:09:52PM -0500, Michael L Ried wrote: I cannot start up X windows after using the startx command. It looks like X windows is

Re: Cannot start X

2000-08-20 Thread kmself
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 08:09:52PM -0500, Michael L Ried wrote: I cannot start up X windows after using the startx command. It looks like X windows is going to start but then it stops soon after starting up. I am not sure if there is some place to look for error messages. I assume that I

Cannot start X

2000-08-19 Thread Michael L Ried
I cannot start up X windows after using the startx command. It looks like X windows is going to start but then it stops soon after starting up. I am not sure if there is some place to look for error messages. I assume that I didn't entered something incorrectly when I ran XF86Config but I am

Re: Cannot start X

2000-08-19 Thread Dale L . Morris
I've had this problem also. Most recently after installing xdm. You might want to try removing your .xsession file in you user directory, or renaming it to .xsession_bak and see if that helps. When you ran XF86Setup, did you get all the way to xvidtun and save the configurations file? If you got