[SOLVED]stuck at startx

loqs · 2021-01-09 06:09:57

kashishme wrote:

loqs wrote:
Did you read the link I posted in post #12? Do you still not understand the relevance of the quote from that post after reading the linked wiki page?
journalctl -b
http://ix.io/2LnZ
xinitrc file
http://ix.io/jmE

The xinitrc is the default and the quote I posted

wiki wrote:

This default xinitrc will start a basic environment with Twm, xorg-xclock and Xterm (assuming that the necessary packages are installed).

startx is failing for you, so given the above what does that imply to I am indicating the cause of failure to be?

Last edited by loqs (2021-01-09 06:19:37)

justm3 · 2021-01-09 06:11:05

@kashishme

Do not take the suggestions of @Anarchist lightly. He means good and I cannot agree more with him.

I noticed your struggle with arch started in the reddit sub, where no one was able to help you because "stuck at startx" hardly means anything. We simply don't know what you try to achieve and your logs of journactl or .xinitrc do not guide us in any direction.

I mean no criticism over you but is is more than evident that you lack basic linux knowledge. And arch requires more than that.

If you still want to continue with arch (why not?) you might want to give a try on distros that based on arch like garuda or endeavouros. Or maybe manjaro.
It is no shame many of us started like this.

Good luck.

Edit : spelling

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kashishme · 2021-01-09 06:54:52

jasonwryan wrote:

kashishme wrote:
jasonwryan wrote:
Ubuntu or Mint.
funny?
No. Both are good distros for beginners.

that ain't my problem

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kashishme · 2021-01-09 06:55:46

loqs wrote:

kashishme wrote:
loqs wrote:
Did you read the link I posted in post #12? Do you still not understand the relevance of the quote from that post after reading the linked wiki page?
journalctl -b
http://ix.io/2LnZ
xinitrc file
http://ix.io/jmE
The xinitrc is the default and the quote I posted
wiki wrote:
This default xinitrc will start a basic environment with Twm, xorg-xclock and Xterm (assuming that the necessary packages are installed).
startx is failing for you, so given the above what does that imply to I am indicating the cause of failure to be?

so i shld install twm n other stuff again n try once more?

Last edited by kashishme (2021-01-09 06:56:56)

kashishme · 2021-01-09 06:58:05

justm3 wrote:

@kashishme
Do not take the suggestions of @Anarchist lightly. He means good and I cannot agree more with him.
I noticed your struggle with arch started in the reddit sub, where no one was able to help you because "stuck at startx" hardly means anything. We simply don't know what you try to achieve and your logs of journactl or .xinitrc do not guide us in any direction.
I mean no criticism over you but is is more than evident that you lack basic linux knowledge. And arch requires more than that.
If you still want to continue with arch (why not?) you might want to give a try on distros that based on arch like garuda or endeavouros. Or maybe manjaro.
It is no shame many of us started like this.
Good luck.

Edit : spelling

Thank you for the advice but i guess i will stick with arch for now

jasonwryan · 2021-01-09 07:03:52

kashishme wrote:

jasonwryan wrote:
kashishme wrote:
funny?
No. Both are good distros for beginners.
that ain't my problem

All evidence in this thread to the contrary...

loqs · 2021-01-09 07:04:03

If you do not install those packages the default xinit will not work. Your choice, change the xinit to start something else which again some package must provide or install the packages providing twm e.t.c..
startx may still fail due to your use of sudo changing the ownership of .Xauthority.

You are really expected to have understood all of this from the wiki.

Last edited by loqs (2021-01-09 07:05:03)

kashishme · 2021-01-09 08:03:50

loqs wrote:

If you do not install those packages the default xinit will not work. Your choice, change the xinit to start something else which again some package must provide or install the packages providing twm e.t.c..
startx may still fail due to your use of sudo changing the ownership of .Xauthority.
You are really expected to have understood all of this from the wiki.

holy crap!!! i will reinstall everything and thn try again. thank youuu

Last edited by kashishme (2021-01-09 08:04:03)

Archlin · 2021-01-09 11:42:51

Why would you reinstall everything?

Just check if the ownership of .Xauthority just lays with the user.

ls -l  .Xauthority

If it does not you could try 'chown' to set the ownership again to the user.

chown 'youruser' .Xauthority

check if ' xorg-twm' and ' xterm' are installed

pacman -Qs xorg-twm
pacman -Qs xterm

If not install them

sudo pacman -S xorg-twm xterm

reboot

Are you sure you want a (very) basic X and not a DE like KDE-Plasma or Gnome?
Those come with a graphical login SDDM or GDM and is perhaps easier for you than using and working with xinitrc and startx.

Last edited by Archlin (2021-01-09 11:53:27)

kashishme · 2021-01-09 14:28:30

well.... Thank you everyone for your help. The problem was really silly, I had to change the configuration file to use my intel gpu instead of nvidia. I appreciate everyone who helped me thank you

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