cannot startx as normal user (other posts cant help me)

Ekimino · 2008-03-01 00:50:37

Ok I have a fresh install on my notebook i just installed Xorg and configured my xorg.conf "startx" runs perfectly as root, but when I try to run it as my normal user it starts shows me the mouse and a black screen but instantly quits. now this are the warnings and errors from Xorg.0.log

    (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/PEX" does not exist.
(WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/share/fonts/cyrillic".
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/western" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/openoffice" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-bitstream-vera" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/latex-ttf-fonts" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/CID" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/defoma/TrueType" does not exist.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1
(WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
(WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(WW) I810(0): Bad V_BIOS checksum
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x23
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x24
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x25
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x26
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x27
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x28
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x29
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2a
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2b
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2c
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2d
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2e
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x2f
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x30
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x31
(WW) AIGLX: 3D driver claims to not support visual 0x32
(WW) Option "XkbVariant" requires an string value
(WW) I810(0): Successfully set original devices
(WW) I810(0): Setting the original video mode instead of restoring
(WW) I810(0): Successfully set original devices (2)

(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)

my user belongs to the group video, i have tried chmoding tmp but that was a pacman bug in an older version, im thinking it could be something of acpi since i made a few changes before posting this and it said i had no permission to write on acpi_video1/brightness <--- dont remember the full path, i can reproduce that if u guysa need it, this happened twice ona fresh install on the same notebook.

ibendiben · 2008-03-01 01:24:45

you installed fonts? can you post:

ls -l /

what happens if you don't use xorg.conf? (rename it)
what iso's did you use?
the fact that root startx works well makes me very suspicious it's the /tmp bug... also the behavior you are describing was exactly what happened to me when /tmp had wrong permissions...
just to be sure:

chmod 1777 /tmp
chmod +t /tmp

Ekimino · 2008-03-01 02:36:42

total 65
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 feb 29 21:01 bin
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  1024 feb 29 21:01 boot
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root     0 feb 29 23:16 dev
drwxr-xr-x 28 root root  4096 feb 29 23:16 etc
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root  4096 feb 29 21:29 home
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 feb 29 22:32 lib
drwx------  2 root root 16384 feb 29 20:43 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root  4096 feb 29 21:05 mnt
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 ene 30 03:43 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 66 root root     0 feb 29 23:13 proc
drwxr-x---  3 root root  4096 feb 29 23:16 root
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 feb 29 21:01 sbin
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 ene 30 03:43 srv
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root     0 feb 29 23:13 sys
drwxrwxrwt  4 root root  4096 mar  1 00:26 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root  4096 feb 29 21:00 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root  4096 feb 29 22:21 var

-i renamed xorg.conf as u said, and the same thing happens, root succesfully starts up, but as a normal user it shows me black screen and mouse and then back to command line.

- I havent installed any fonts, but thisa doesnt seem to be the problem.

-I used the latest iso 2007.8

-forgot to say that i used this same cd to install on a desktop machine and this particular thing worked. had other issues but this worked.

thanks for helping

Last edited by Ekimino (2008-03-01 02:54:17)

Lazer · 2008-03-07 21:02:47

i people, i installed arch sucefully in a pc today but i think i'm suffering from the same problem. I even found it really strange.
I installed from the unetubuin, that installs a system only from the latest packages.

Did everything fine, x11, xfce, gdm, drivers, etc...
If i try to run startxfce4 with root it works, but with the user it doesn't. Then rebooted and made sytem go to init 5, then from gdm tried again and it's the same...

Any help is welcomed. I probably can only report back in monday, since i can't acess that pc till then...

deicist · 2009-03-17 09:08:45

I had a similar issue this morning, exact same symptoms. I noticed that if I started X from the command line the last line of output when it dumped me out was a message about being unable to write to '.ICEauthority' in my home directory. Doing 'chmod 777 ./.ICEauthority' in my home directory fixed the problem...however, I've no idea what that file is or if I've just opened a huge security hole in my machine.

Rasi · 2009-03-17 09:40:27

yea, i would also suggest both last suggestions.

ssl6 · 2009-03-17 17:09:31

i'm not sure its helpful, given my lack of knowledge. but one of the errors is to do with type1, i was reading one of the wiki articles last night that mentioned commenting out the line "module type1" in xorg.conf. i also had to do the same thing when i upgrade to xorg 1.5 i think

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#1 2008-03-01 00:50:37

cannot startx as normal user (other posts cant help me)

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