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Hello,
i just started with Arch so maybe you can help me.
I installed Arch on my laptop a few days ago, getting up everything to work right now but xorg.
I istalled it via pacman and it started so i decided to use xfce4 installed it and yes it worked, too.
An hour or so... i just looked through some themes for the windows as it crashed.
I worked with my user account.
So i rebooted the system but xserver is not starting anymore.
When i kick startx on the console it will display a few lines, no errors but on the end "waiting for xserver to shut down".
I checked the logfile but couldn't find an error or something that sounds like one.
The crazzy thing is, if i start x with sudo it will work... (or starting under root account).
I tried reinstalling xorg and xfce4 because i didn't know how to move on (spend 6 hours on that and gone mad a bit ^^), but nothing changed.
Is there maybe anywhere a file created when starting xorg, that maybe blocks the starting of xorg again?
Any other ideas?
I would be happy if anyone has an solution.
Regards
Michael
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check the permissions of these files in your home directory
.ICEauthority
.Xauthority
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Maybe something you was doing broke your xfce4 installation, and now it refuses to begin. Probably in your .xinitrc you have something like "exec xfce4" (or w/e it is started), so when it dies, the Xserver also exits.
Try (re)moving your xfc4 config files from your user account, to start in a fresh session.
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.ICEauthority
.Xauthority
Both are owned by my user and the permissin is "rw" for owner, group and everyone don't have any.
@olvar
I commented out the exec in .xinitrc so that i can just run xserver with startx. But the problem still exists.
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Okay ehm i don't know why but xinitrc blocked it...
So i deletet it for now, ill look whats the real problem now.
Edit:
So maybe it was an config file that i missed to delete .
I started x (startx), then in a console window i startet xfce (startxfce4) and it came up.
Closed xfce and shut down xserver.
Then startet xfce directly with startxfce (without startx first).
Works.
Edit2:
Reproduced the error:
Open WindowManager
Choose style "Wildbush"
Xfce dies
Solution:
remove everything related to xfce in ~/.cache/ and ~/.config/
So thanks for your help again.
I was so close to dropping the laptop to the basket. ^^
Last edited by Knalltüte (2010-09-16 17:21:38)
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Because this bug is still open I post in this thread.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24703
EXA crashes because of 1x1 pixmaps with 1 color.
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