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monk

Member

Registered: 2008-05-25

Posts: 8

X only startable as root afer pacman -Suy

Hello everybody,

since i've done a system upgrade with pacman -Suy some hours ago i am no more able to start x neither with startx nor gdm as a non root user.

root can do startx and will see the GUI as expected. I think it's a permissions problem, but i really don't know with what. On a topic a few lines under mine there was the problem of the X binary with wrong permissions. That's not my problem, the X binaries (or the Xorg binaries and the X links) permissions are correct.
What makes the whole thing really tricky is that the Xorg logfiles do not say anything about what is not going right. In my desperation i also tried strace to see what goes wrong with no luck.
I am using the 64 bit version. 

I would be glad if anybody is able to help me out of the situation i am now forced to: using windows.

Wilco

Member

Registered: 2008-11-09

Posts: 440

Re: X only startable as root afer pacman -Suy

Maybe uninstalling and reinstalling helps:
Uninstall:

pacman -Rs xorg

and

pacman -Sy xorg

to reinstall