Startx does not start xorg without sudo | Linux For All | Page 1

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:46 PM

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I am on Debian 12 with dwm as my WM. Typing startx on tty gives “xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused”
With no log file in .local and sudo startx works with no errors but everything warns me about being in the root account.

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:47 PM

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Stop using root as if a regular user account then!

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:47 PM

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I am logged in as the user

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:47 PM

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How are you running dwm for startx? What's your xinitrc look like?

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:48 PM

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Exec dwm

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:48 PM

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With that capitolized E?

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:49 PM

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No I am on my phone right now

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Autocorrect

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Lowercase e

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:49 PM

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YOu would need to provide more details,.Logs (startx outputs to stdout, not to a file.), .xinitrc contents, etc.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:50 PM

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brave valley YOu would need to provide more details,.Logs (startx outputs to stdout, not to a...

I will try my best as I can’t copy paste from my computer

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:51 PM

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You don't need to.

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startx > startup.log

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cat startup.log | nc termbin.com 9999

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:52 PM

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What’s nc?

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:52 PM

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netcat

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:52 PM

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Do I need to apt install or is it already there

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:52 PM

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It's default in many cases, TIAS, install if needed.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:53 PM

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I assume net cat posts it to termbin.com

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:53 PM

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Yep.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:54 PM

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Done.

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:54 PM

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URL?

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:54 PM

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Nothing came back

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:54 PM

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...

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:54 PM

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Was it 9999 or a place holder?

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:55 PM

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https://termbin.com/

termbin.com - terminal pastebin

Termbin.com is a command line pastebin - easy way to share your terminal output.

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Is your log file more than 0 bytes?

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:55 PM

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Lemme see

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It has nothing

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:56 PM

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So, 0 bytes?

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:56 PM

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Blank

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Yes

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0

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:56 PM

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startx &> startup.log

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:56 PM

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Done

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:57 PM

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Is that more than 0 bytes?

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:57 PM

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Yes

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Sorry

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Yes

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:57 PM

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So,termbin it.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:57 PM

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K

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https://termbin.com/rxk4

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:58 PM

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Hmm.. That's all, eh?

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:58 PM

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Yeah

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:58 PM

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termbin your .xinitrc

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:58 PM

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Alll I see

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:58 PM

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brave valley termbin your .xinitrc

K

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:59 PM

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Not likely to provide much help, because it's clear Xorg isn't even starting.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 5:59 PM

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brave valley termbin your .xinitrc

https://termbin.com/rk96

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 5:59 PM

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apt install xorg -- Just to make sure it's reasonably installed.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:00 PM

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brave valley `apt install xorg` -- Just to make sure it's reasonably installed.

—reinstall or no?

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 6:00 PM

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No.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:00 PM

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polar pier https://termbin.com/rk96

Doom fan

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:00 PM

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brave valley `apt install xorg` -- Just to make sure it's reasonably installed.

Sudo apt?

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 6:00 PM

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Of course.

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If you've configured sudo.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:01 PM

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I have

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Also ran an apt upgrade

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Startx still the same

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 6:04 PM

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I wonder if you ran sudo startx, and it rote files in your $HOME that are now owned by root

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:05 PM

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No all me

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 6:05 PM

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find $HOME -user root

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:06 PM

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Returns all my .config/dwm and st and dmenu

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 6:06 PM

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So.... Stuff in $HOME is owned by root user.

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Ironically just like I said.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:07 PM

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Ls -lah says my username

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:07 PM

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brave valley Ironically just like I said.

Yeah

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:07 PM

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polar pier Ls -lah says my username

In my $HOME

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but the .config subdirectory, yes

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 6:08 PM

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And, is there a specific reason why, you want suckless software, the only software YOU have to patch to make it suck less? And also not using a displaymanager?

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:09 PM

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Too many questions that I have no good answer to

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 6:09 PM

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find $HOME -user root -exec chown $USER:$USER \{\} +

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Ahh.

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You might need to run that sudo. 🙂

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$HOME and $USER would be translated before the execution so it remains the same.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:10 PM

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I think because of sudo make clean install it did this

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 6:10 PM

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.config? Not likely that.

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if so, you did something very wrong.

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:11 PM

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In .config/suckless/dwm I did sudo make clean install

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So the binary is owned by root

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 6:11 PM

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You have a binary in .config?

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:11 PM

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brave valley You have a binary in .config?

In .config/suckless/dwm

brave valley Jul 7, 2023, 6:11 PM

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walks away.

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Good luck. 🙂

polar pier Jul 7, 2023, 6:13 PM

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brave valley `find $HOME -user root -exec chown $USER:$USER \{\} +`

Operation not permitted

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Sudo it is

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Ahhh startx is still the same

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i_know_what_im_doing I know what I am doing

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