[ale] Debian Jessie upgrade startx dead

[Alex Carver]

A little extra info, I fired up top in a remote shell and tried to run
startx on the console.  I saw startx fire up followed by xinit and then,
after some delay, both went away.

On 2016-04-30 20:07, Alex Carver wrote:
> Runlevel is 2 so no login managers are running.
> 
> No display managers are installed either (dpkg comes up blank)
> 
> The log doesn't scream anything obvious to me but this is what I get
> (currently the screen is blank as of posting this log file, but Xorg is
> no longer listed in the process list.  In fact I think I caught it dying
> (I thought I spotted a Z-zombie next to it in top).
> 

> 
> 
> 
> On 2016-04-30 19:58, Dustin Strickland wrote:
>> Just some wild guesses, but maybe check your runlevel. Perhaps run a `dpkg -l 
>> *dm` to see if perhaps the upgrade installed a display manager for some reason. 
>> Do you have anything relevant in your Xorg logs?
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net 
>> <mailto:agcarver+ale at acarver.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     Already did that, didn't work.
>>
>>     On 2016-04-30 18:20, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>>      > Create a new account and try that.  That will rule out userid-specific config
>>      > issues.
>>      >
>>      > On 04/30/2016 08:40 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
>>      >> I just upgraded a laptop from Wheezy to Jessie.  Under Wheezy everything
>>      >> was fine, I could log in then run startx to bring up the desktop
>>      >> (fluxbox).  Under Jessie I can't get anything to come up, I just get a
>>      >> black screen.  Even the virtual terminals are dead (can't Ctrl-Alt-Fn or
>>      >> crash out with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace).
>>      >>
>>      >> Nothing seems out of the ordinary, I don't see any obvious error
>>      >> messages during the startup process.
>>      >>
>>      >> I'd love suggestions about other places to look for any other issues.
>>      >> Command line is working, video looks normal there.  I don't think any
>>      >> configurations changed but I do have a backup of /etc to compare against
>>      >> but a quick glance says no changes.
> 
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