On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > [snipped. I have xfce4 and lightdm]
> > >> Have you looked at the logs? Especially Xorg.0.log and xsessions-errors. > > > > Xorg logs seem normal > > I don't see any xsessions-errors file > > ~/.xsessions-errors > Aha! something that may help. A bunch of stanzas like this: Xsession: X session started for kevin at Sat Jan 17 10:42:34 PST 2015 localuser:kevin being added to access control list openConnection: connect: No such file or directory cannot connect to brltty at :0 Script for ibus started at run_im. Script for auto started at run_im. Script for default started at run_im. Unable to create /home/kevin/.dbus/session-bus Script for ibus started at run_im. Script for auto started at run_im. Script for default started at run_im. x-session-manager[1414]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry.... > > >> Can you launch X after logging in to the console? > > > > I don't know how. > > You can check that the basic functionality of X is OK with > xinit /usr/bin/xterm -- /usr/bin/X :0 -nolisten tcp vt01 > (assuming that you're on tty1 when launching X) > > Otherwise, you can start X with > xinit [...] > startx [...] > service lightdm [re]start > > These all fail and add another stanza to the .xsession-errors file > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SzCMuz+ssPHE6S3-WgtRS104JWey1uKMKYVhKK3Nn=z...@mail.gmail.com > > -- Kevin O'Gorman #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb)) /* Shakespeare */ Please consider the environment before printing this email.
