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svalmont

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startx error: Can't create cookie

Arch boots to command line instead of my KDM login. When I type startx I get the error "Can't create cookie".

jasonwryan

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Re: startx error: Can't create cookie

Please paste the full Xorg log...

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svalmont

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Re: startx error: Can't create cookie

No new Xorg log is written.  My assumption is that it never finishes the xinitrc script and the error results from there. 
Here is my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file.  None of those top 4 aliased files exist.  And in my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/, I have 3 files: 40-libcanberra-gtk-module.sh, 50-systemd-user.sh, and 60-xdg-user-dirs.sh

#!/bin/sh

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then







    xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then







    xrdb -merge "$userresources"

fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
 for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
  [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
 done
 unset f
fi

twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login

Last edited by svalmont (2015-12-09 11:23:01)

WorMzy

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Re: startx error: Can't create cookie

Is your root partition mounted read only?

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svalmont

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Re: startx error: Can't create cookie

Solved: running lsmod | grep fglrx results in no output.
The problem isn't with xorg, it is in fglrx.