[SOLVED] Xorg not starting on fresh install yet I see no errors

chrepechrep · 2021-08-21 19:02:35

There really is not a lot more to say than the title. Fresh install of arch , startx not working , have nvidia drivers , all the needed mkinitcpio modules , drm.modeset in /default/grub using xinit , used nvidia-xconfig already yet the server is not starting and I don`t get any errors in Xorg.0.log .I don`t know what to do.

Xorg.0.log: https://gist.github.com/SebastianDoroba … 76d44c3976
Xorg.0.log.old: https://gist.github.com/SebastianDoroba … 1801dfb0ed
xinitrc: https://github.com/SebastianDorobantu/d … 11/xinitrc

If anyone can help me solve this , thank you in advance

Last edited by chrepechrep (2021-08-21 19:15:21)

Trilby · 2021-08-21 19:05:52

The last line of the xorg log is clear: Xorg successfully did everything that was asked of it and exited cleanly.

The problem would appear to be qtile. You can confirm this by trying another WM, or even just put a terminal emulator in place of qtile as a quick test.

If that works, the next step would be to catch error output from qtile. This *may* be as simple as redirecting stderr / stdout from the `exec qtile` line to a file - but I've never used qtile ... so I'm not sure how much useful info it'd even give.

EDIT: though from 5 seconds of looking at the wiki, it's clear you are using the wrong comand to start qtile which would almost certainly explain your symptoms.

Last edited by Trilby (2021-08-21 19:06:46)

chrepechrep · 2021-08-21 19:15:00

Trilby wrote:

EDIT: though from 5 seconds of looking at the wiki, it's clear you are using the wrong comand to start qtile which would almost certainly explain your symptoms.

I had my configs from my github , really didn`t think there could be a problem with them but it seems i didn`t commit .xinitrc ...... I guess a fresh pair of eyes really costs a fortune , dam I feel stupid for spending my whole day on this:0

Trilby · 2021-08-21 20:24:02

All errors seem foolish in hindsight. It was only easy for the fresh set of eyes to catch it because you provided all the relevant info in the first post.

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[SOLVED] Xorg not starting on fresh install yet I see no errors

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