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hippityhoppityboppity

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Registered: 2020-08-25

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[Solved] Can't start X after reboot

Hi everyone,

Today when I booted my laptop I saw a (unusual) flashing message: "Welcome to GRUB" in the top-left corner, and then it showed me tty1 as normal.

There is also a error message displayed before the login prompt: "Unable to resolve profile automatically from wifi-menu".

When I log in, it logs me in but then crashes and sends me back to the login screen.

So I went on tty2 and typed startx, but it's telling me "DP1 is not disconnected but has no modes."

Also, whenever I try to add a mode to DP1 with xrandr, I get: "Can't open display". (Presumably because xrandr needs X to be running.)

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The only thing I remember changing between reboots is deleting a netctl profile. Also, I am on latest kernel and updates. I was able to log in with tty2 and update from there.

Last edited by hippityhoppityboppity (2020-08-25 12:44:36)

Trilby

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Re: [Solved] Can't start X after reboot

Please post the xorg log from when startx fails.

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hippityhoppityboppity

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Registered: 2020-08-25

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Re: [Solved] Can't start X after reboot

Please post the xorg log from when startx fails.

Oh! I took a closer look at the logs... It was complaining of an invalid parameter to exec in .xinitrc. I was using "exec --no-startup-id i3" but apparently that parameter is not valid!

Thanks.