Mea culpa. I think I had 2 different (albeit similar) bug reports open
in different tabs and posted to the wrong one. FWIW, the proximate cause
of my problem was simple: ~/.Xauthority was owned root:root. That seems
to me to be an installer bug.
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I should have mentioned that the system shows a lot of large print
output in tty 7 as the system is booting and hangs at "started update
UTMP about system runlevel changes." When I look in tty1 there is
screenful of stuff and then a prompt, looking as if it had successfully
booted. I can log in
Me too. Fresh install of 16.04 from the mini.iso. Used apt-get to
install xorg, openbox and some applications. This always used to work.
Now only root can start x. This is bare metal, not virtual. I tried
installing first xserver-xorg-video-all and then xserver-xorg-legacy.
Neither made any
I have 16.04LTS 64bit Desktop installed on my Dell Precision M4400
laptop which does use NVidia graphics card. I have an Acer 4K monitor
and am running the 340 series NVidia Linux 64 driver.
This morning the system installed an update, which included the series 4
kernel.
The system boots and
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Importance: High => Low
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Title:
X server fails to start under regular user in Xenial
To manage
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Critical
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Importance: Critical => High
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Unless I'm hitting a separate issue that happens to throw up the same
errors, this isn't just virtualbox. I'm on Nvidia.
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Title:
X server fails
Oli, if you are using the proprietry drivers, then yes you will need
xserver-xorg-legacy, though this should get pulled in automatically when
you install/update the drivers (so long as you are using the version
from the ubuntu archives)
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: xorg-server (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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This is seemingly caused by the virtualbox drivers not yet having
support to non-root Xorg sessions.
The workaround for now is to install xserver-xorg-legacy and/or
virtualbox-guest-dkms
** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => xorg-server (Ubuntu)
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