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I have a strange problem that has cropped up recently.
I use xinitrc to login and once I put in my username and password, it shows me my last login date and just sits there doing nothing. I have to hit the "RETURN" key twice for it to actually start X. I have even let it sit for over an hour and it just doesn't start up X.
What could be the issue? I haven't changed my xinitrc or my bash_profile files since a long time and it used to work correctly before. Here are the relevant files
xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#
# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# exec icewm
exec openbox-session
# exec blackbox
# exec startfluxbox
# exec ratpoison
# exec dwm
# exec enlightenment_start
# ... or any other WM of your choosing ...
bash_profile
. $HOME/.bashrc
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
. ~/.bashrc
fi
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d ~/bin ] ; then
PATH=~/bin:"${PATH}"
fi
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then
rm ~/.serverauth* 2>/dev/null
startx -- -br 2>/dev/null
fi
Last edited by Inxsible (2009-01-23 00:14:44)
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as a first step, remove the redirects to /dev/null from your .bash_profile so you get some output from startx. then, if you can fix it yrself, post yr solution. if not, post your output.
Last edited by kludge (2009-01-22 23:54:12)
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as a first step, remove the redirects to /dev/null from your .bash_profile so you get some output from startx. then, if you can fix it yrself, post yr solution. if not, post your output.
Thanks for setting me up in the right direction. It asks me 2 questions both about removing a serverauth.2442 file and another for serverauth.2775 file
rm: remove regular file ~/.serverauth.2442?
rm: remove regular file ~/.serverauth.2527?
I simply removed those files and updated my bash_profile to not ask for user confirmation while removing those files in the future.
Last edited by Inxsible (2009-01-23 00:14:13)
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