Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-25 Thread Thanos Baloukas
On 25/09/2016 12:20 πμ, Rob wrote: Thanos Baloukas wrote: Please disregard what I said about systemd setting the tty variable, it's not true. Does startx work if you specify the vt number? the startx command said that -vt was an unrecognized option. Yes, the hyphen

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Douglas R. Reno
On Sep 24, 2016 6:26 PM, "Rob" wrote: > > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Are the service files really that much easier? Look at the LFS scripts. > A typical file is a simple bash script about a page long. Half of that is > comments. Admins are used to

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Rob
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Are the service files really that much easier? Look at the LFS scripts. A typical file is a simple bash script about a page long. Half of that is comments. Admins are used to reading bash scripts. Reading these are comfortable and easy to

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I agree. That's because systemd is stupid. They think everyone wants to run multiple X sessions on a system so they have this 'seats' thing. They have this penchant for making Linux harder to understand and use. Think about it. What

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Rob
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I agree. That's because systemd is stupid. They think everyone wants to > run multiple X sessions on a system so they have this 'seats' thing. They > have this penchant for making Linux harder to understand and use. > Think about it. What does

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Make sure the PATH is set properly so xauth is found. On debugging technique is to edit /opt/xorg/bin/startx. At the bottom is the line: xinit "$client" $clientargs -- "$server" $display $serverargs copy that line and on the first

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Rob
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Make sure the PATH is set properly so xauth is found. On debugging > technique is to edit /opt/xorg/bin/startx. At the bottom is the line: > xinit "$client" $clientargs -- "$server" $display $serverargs > copy that line and on the first copy add

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Rob
Thanos Baloukas wrote: > Please disregard what I said about systemd setting the tty variable, > it's not true. Does startx work if you specify the vt number? the startx command said that -vt was an unrecognized option. Putting a line in ~/.xserverrc didn't work either; it

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Douglas R. Reno wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Thanos Baloukas wrote: On 23/09/2016 09:21 μμ, Rob wrote: BLFS-7.10 Systemd We're now in the section of Chapter 24 called Testing Xorg When I tried running startx I got a lot of messages, but

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Rob
Thanos Baloukas wrote: > That possibly happens because Xorg wants to start on tty0 > while you login on another tty. If systemd is compiled with > pam it sets the XDG_VTNR var to the tty number the login occurs, > otherwise I think sets tty var to /dev/ttyn Something else I

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Douglas R. Reno
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 2:34 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Thanos Baloukas wrote: > >> On 23/09/2016 09:21 μμ, Rob wrote: >> >>> BLFS-7.10 Systemd >>> We're now in the section of Chapter 24 called >>> Testing Xorg >>> When I tried running >>> startx >>> I got a lot of messages,

Re: [blfs-support] startx failes to work

2016-09-24 Thread Thanos Baloukas
On 23/09/2016 09:21 μμ, Rob wrote: BLFS-7.10 Systemd We're now in the section of Chapter 24 called Testing Xorg When I tried running startx I got a lot of messages, but it basically said at the end: Fatal server error: (EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied) I thought