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paulfxh

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Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 33

Terminal launches with Xorg.wrap complaint and 15s delay to prompt.

I've just installed 64-bit Arch on an upgraded Dell Dim. E520 and it works "almost" perfectly.

However, opening a terminal (I've tried LXterminal, Xterm, Yakuake, and any TTY) displays "/usr/bin/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server"
followed by a 15 second delay when xinit announces, in turn, that it's "giving up, unable to connect to X server: Connection refused, server error, Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console".
Thereafter, the command prompt appears and the terminal may be used as normal.

Additional information:
1. If I launch LXTerminal as root, it goes straight to the command (root) prompt suggesting a permissions issue
2. If I modify /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to make xorg run with root privileges and for any user (as explained on this page) and then launch LXTerminal, a more elaborate error message, including "no screens found" appears before ending in the same error as before, albeit with the same fully usable command prompt.
3. I've changed permissions on /usr/bin/Xorg.wrap from 4755 to 755 but this made no difference.
4. I had the very same problem with Arch 32-bit which I had installed about a week ago on the same computer.

Can anybody help me eliminate this issue and open a terminal straight to a command prompt as I've been doing in various Linux OSes (including Arch) over the past 10 years?
(I know this is probably a systemd issue but my knowledge of systemd is currently not even rudimentary. Sorry ).

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: Terminal launches with Xorg.wrap complaint and 15s delay to prompt.

How exactly are you trying to run these tty emulators? How are you starting X? Post your ~/.xinitrc.
Why does you tty complain about X? Are you starting X automatically on every tty?

What's the output of

loginctl show-session $XDG_SESSION_ID

?

Last edited by karol (2015-02-05 23:52:02)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

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Re: Terminal launches with Xorg.wrap complaint and 15s delay to prompt.

It's not a permissions issue - you are trying to launch X from your shell rc file, but it looks like you are doing it wrong.  Post that file here and we can help.

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paulfxh

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Registered: 2008-03-11

Posts: 33

Re: Terminal launches with Xorg.wrap complaint and 15s delay to prompt.

@karol, @Trilby
Thank you for your replies.
Well, the problem is solved thanks to your suggestions.
And it had nothing at all to do with either systemd or permissions.
Turns out I had inadvertently left "startx" at the bottom of my .bashrc after I had installed LXDE which inserted "exec startlxde" into .xinitrc.
Taking out the startx line from .bashrc resolved everything.
Too embarrassed to say any more