On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 07:32:22AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've been using startx to start X for as long as I've been using Linux - > about 10 years or more. Yesterday it stopped working, giving an error > message about "/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc - no such option". But xinit > runs as expected. This is on a laptop running Sid. > > I know that startx is just a front end to xinit and is not essential but > I'd like to understand what is happening. I had just done a large > upgrade so perhaps something happened there; I'd also been experimenting > with sshfs. > > > Googling didn't produce much. I tried commenting out the lines in startx > that refer to xserverrc but then other errors appeared. > > Can anyone shed any light on this? Perhaps I should submit a bug report. > > Anthony
while this is fixed you can start xorg with startx -- :1 this works for me. best regards, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
