X not working for user anymore [solved]

Tariella · Last edited by Tariella on Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:26 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi,

I have a problem starting X since the latest update of my loginmanager entrance. I had to delete xdm from the runlevel and now the startx command is working but for root only.

If I try to startx as a user I get the following error:

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Tariella · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject:

sys-auth/consolekit-0.2.3 is installed with use-flag pam.

esroh · n00b Joined: 15 May 2004 Posts: 4 Location: HK

I came across the same problem. After emerging x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.0.90, the problem's gone.

Strangely enough, emerge -up world didn't get xorg-server updated. I had to do that manually. :roll:

Tariella · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 9:29 pm Post subject:

I already did a re-emerge of every xorg related package.

After a reemerge of consolekit the messages are gone, but X still won't start.

The screen goes black and I can see the mouse-pointer for a second, the I'm back at the console. Strangely there are no error-messages.

I don't like the idea of a complete reinstall, my laptop is really slow :cry:

ni1s · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2006 Posts: 29

Doesn't consolekit use a init script(/etc/init.d/consolekit)? If so, is it running?

Tariella · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 7:26 pm Post subject:

Consolekit was not in the runlevel, I'm fairly sure that I never had it in the runlevel, but I added it just to be sure.
It didn't make a difference.

What can I do now that there are no more error-messages?

esroh · n00b Joined: 15 May 2004 Posts: 4 Location: HK

Tariella · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 3:00 pm Post subject:

Ok, so I'll try emerging xorg-server again. Maybe it will help now that consolekit is installed properly.

skellr · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2007 4:30 pm Post subject:

A quick thing to try is delete any ~/.Xauthority and ~/.serverauth.* files in your home directory, and clean out /tmp. In /etc/conf.d/bootmisc there is an option to wipe the /tmp directory on every boot.

Most times for me when X has just quit starting for some reason, it was one of these files causing problems.

esroh · n00b Joined: 15 May 2004 Posts: 4 Location: HK

Tariella · Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 5:59 pm Post subject:

I tried all your solutions but nothing worked. :-(

Neo2 · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 224 Location: Italy

Try to look in your /var/log/messages to see if there's anything related to your problem. Usually PAM and modules send the logs to this default file.
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Tariella · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 10:17 am Post subject:

The only messages from trying to start X are the following:

grexxx · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 5

I just made a new install of the entire system (new kernel, new internet provider and some new hardware - just did everything from scratch to refresh my knowledge of everything) and encountered exactly the same problem.
X just wouldn't start as a user, first with consolekit error message, then I read this thread, reemerged consolekit, started it and was left out without error but X still wouldn't start.
So I started deleting all those Xorg related files, nothing.
Then started to reemerge xorg-server and during that started X again (just because of waiting).. nothing.
So then I just started deleting everything I didn't find strictly necesarry (like /tmp and some logs I didn't want -- waiting for the emerge to finish can be very annoying so I actually forgot /tmp might have been used during emerge process - another story never mind).,.. still it wouldn't start.
Then I deleted ~/.xinitrc (which had one commented line saying #exec startkde - playing around with kde4).

It worked after I deleted that file and the emerge of xorg-server still hasn't finished by then.

Can't explain that, but it happend 2 times... both times it started to work after I deleted .xinitrc without any noncommented data in it (just one commented line as stated above).

Is there any good explanation for this?

Adwin · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject:

If you have DBUS enabled in the new xorg-servers, you must be sure to have dbus running.

Tariella · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject:

Its really strange but it works now !

When I looked last time there was no ~/.xinitrc but now after reemerging xorg-server I looked again and found it (it was empty, 0Bytes). So I tried to delete it and the problem is gone

BouletInside · n00b Joined: 28 Sep 2007 Posts: 3

I was having the same problem.
I started the "/etc/init.d/consolekit" service and no more xinit error.

But I still have some problem starting xfce4

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May be due to the nvidia driver....

random303 · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 7 Location: Belgium

I had the same problems as above, thank god I found this thread...

"exec startdkde" problem was gone after I removed .xinitrc from root home directory. I think for users this is needed, for root user it isn't.

xinitd problem was gone after I started consolekit.

Thanks, and I hope some else found this usefull.

I love gentoo ... nice OS. Ones you get the hang of it...