Hi, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.courno...@gmail.com> skribis:
>> There’s a third problem that I initially thought was unrelated: >> >> 3. The mcron job starts running before ‘xorg-server’ is up, and that >> can cause Xorg to fail to start. >> >> Namely, if you run the command above, you’ll see that Xorg starts and >> fails typically a few times in a row, until it eventually succeeds. In >> /var/log/messages, you can see that the ‘xorg-server’ process exits with >> code 1 (without any indication of what went wrong AFAICS) and the >> service gets respawned. >> >> Now if you remove the mcron job and boot the VM, the ‘xorg-server’ >> service successfully starts. It’s 100% reproducible for me. > > I tried to reproduce the problem without any luck on my machine (it > always boots fine). Odd. Does ‘xorg-server’ successfully start from the first time, or does succeed after a few tries? For me it systemically tries a couple of time before it succeeds. Ludo’.
