Solution found! Invalid $HOME/.Xauthority file. I was fooling around with the 'xauth' command and noticed that the .Xauthority file had been created around the time startx started failing. Checked the startx script and saw it was checking for .Xauthority, exporting if it existed. I probably generated a bad one, which would explain the "No protocol specified".
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