On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 01:18:07PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Jan 06, 2020 at 05:48:24PM +0000, Russell L. Harris wrote: Why be imprecise like this? Why not type out the exact error message?
Here is a transcript from the screen of about a half of the lines displayed (offhand, I do not know how to capture the response and get it from the other machine to this one): X.Org X Server 1.20.4 ... Current version of pixman: 0.36.0 ... (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" ... xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error
Anyway, it *maybe* sounds like X isn't installed. I would try "apt-get install xorg". If that actually installs a bunch of stuff, then the guess was correct. And, if X isn't installed, then it's possible that your chosen desktop environment isn't installed either. So you might need to install that as well.
I installed via my local approx server, so I presume the easiest approach is a fresh netinstall. I routinely install via text-mode rather than GUI, and EXPERT mode.
