On 6/14/18, Siard <shiems...@kpnplanet.nl> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 12:40 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: >> Siard wrote on 06/13/18 17:28: >> > <snip> >> > I took a try and upgraded the xserver-*** packages in testing to >> > version 2:1.20.0 taken from unstable. >> > It did work; X (started with 'startx') is back, despite the systemd >> > packages having version 238. >> > It looks like things will be back to normal after the next upgrade >> > of X in testing. Anyway, thanks for responding. >> >> Which init package do you use? On my systems it's sysvinit-core. > > systemd at the moment. sysvinit-core is not installed.
Just throwing this out there. xinit is mine (on Xfce4). It's always high on my to-do list immediately after initial debootstrap installs. While searching my inbox to see what had come up in the past, xserver-xorg-legacy had a few mentions related to startx/xinit. One person, Debian user Jason, experienced success by *removing* it instead of installing, but I don't know the advisability of going that route since I've never had to tinker with it myself. :) https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/07/msg00640.html And user Gareth discovered that their window manager had been removed during an upgrade: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2016/08/msg00222.html In your original post, you said: > But since then, when starting X from the console, the process soon comes to a > grinding halt. These are the last lines: > (==) Log file: "/home/<user>/local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Jun 12 > 16:18:18 > 2018 > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" > (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" > (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" *My* kneejerk reaction is it *looks like* it's searching for a hint that it's not finding. THEN AGAIN... it's also possible that's just saying that it successfully completed those steps and then got hung up. My same file went straight to /usr/share. The lines immediately after it reference not finding yada-yada so it falls back on default. :) One or more of those three paths received mentions in the various threads I found. Maybe searching the Debian-User archives will turn up a user-specific tweak that needs done there? PS and by the way, those references pulled up related to xinit, startx, and xserver-xorg-legacy. All three were used as standalone keywords during searches. Mentioning that in case it helps narrow down a related search. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *
