Xorg does not start after crash

Knalltüte · 2010-09-16 15:31:55

Hello,

i just started with Arch so maybe you can help me.

I installed Arch on my laptop a few days ago, getting up everything to work right now but xorg.

I istalled it via pacman and it started so i decided to use xfce4 installed it and yes it worked, too.
An hour or so... i just looked through some themes for the windows as it crashed.
I worked with my user account.

So i rebooted the system but xserver is not starting anymore.
When i kick startx on the console it will display a few lines, no errors but on the end "waiting for xserver to shut down".

I checked the logfile but couldn't find an error or something that sounds like one.

The crazzy thing is, if i start x with sudo it will work... (or starting under root account).

I tried reinstalling xorg and xfce4 because i didn't know how to move on (spend 6 hours on that and gone mad a bit ^^), but nothing changed.

Is there maybe anywhere a file created when starting xorg, that maybe blocks the starting of xorg again?

Any other ideas?

I would be happy if anyone has an solution.

Regards
Michael

skunktrader · 2010-09-16 15:39:20

check the permissions of these files in your home directory

.ICEauthority
.Xauthority

olvar · 2010-09-16 15:49:35

Maybe something you was doing broke your xfce4 installation, and now it refuses to begin. Probably in your .xinitrc you have something like "exec xfce4" (or w/e it is started), so when it dies, the Xserver also exits.
Try (re)moving your xfc4 config files from your user account, to start in a fresh session.

Knalltüte · 2010-09-16 15:59:22

.ICEauthority
.Xauthority

Both are owned by my user and the permissin is "rw" for owner, group and everyone don't have any.

@olvar

I commented out the exec in .xinitrc so that i can just run xserver with startx. But the problem still exists.

Knalltüte · 2010-09-16 16:46:38

Okay ehm i don't know why but xinitrc blocked it...
So i deletet it for now, ill look whats the real problem now.

Edit:

So maybe it was an config file that i missed to delete .

I started x (startx), then in a console window i startet xfce (startxfce4) and it came up.
Closed xfce and shut down xserver.
Then startet xfce directly with startxfce (without startx first).

Works.

Edit2:

Reproduced the error:

Open WindowManager
Choose style "Wildbush"
Xfce dies

Solution:

remove everything related to xfce in ~/.cache/ and ~/.config/

So thanks for your help again.
I was so close to dropping the laptop to the basket. ^^

Last edited by Knalltüte (2010-09-16 17:21:38)

Cdh · 2010-10-19 17:59:35

Because this bug is still open I post in this thread.

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24703

EXA crashes because of 1x1 pixmaps with 1 color.

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#1 2010-09-16 15:31:55

Xorg does not start after crash

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