X11 Xserver startup problem on a Raspberry PI

[Peter Hutterer]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 09:20:32AM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> I have a Raspberry Pi (Model 2 B) running a fairly recent version of Raspbian 
> (2017-04-10-raspbian-jessie.zip).  I have it start up to the console login, 
> since most of the time I just ssh into it from another machine (either my 
> CentOS laptop or desktop).  I just tied to login into its console (using my TV 
> as a monitor) and using the startx command t fire up the GUI, but it is 
> failing.  I *think* it is having some sort of problem with the input device I 
> am using: a combo keyboard / trackball:

there are no error messages in the log regarding libinput, it all comes up
normally. So whatever the issue is, I don't think that's it. the logind
messages looked fine too, so that shouldn't be an issue either.

fwiw, you could easily verify it with sudo libinput-debug-events, if that
handles the events correctly then the driver will too and you can mostly
rule out libinput issues.

"it is failing" is a bit generic, what exactly doesn't work?

Cheers,
   Peter