X11 Xserver startup problem on a Raspberry PI
Peter Hutterer
peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Mon Jun 26 23:35:11 UTC 2017
On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 07:29:33PM -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Tue, 27 Jun 2017 08:55:35 +1000 Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Well, libinput-debug-events does not seem to be installed... What package
> would it be in? dpkg-query -l \*libinput\* yields:
don't know, sorry, in one of the libinput* packages maybe, not in the
xserver-.. package.
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name Version Architecture Description
> +++-===========================-============-============-===================================================================
> ii libinput-bin 1.5.0-1 armhf input device management and event handling library - udev quirks
> ii libinput10:armhf 1.5.0-1 armhf input device management and event handling library - shared library
> ii xserver-xorg-input-libinput 0.20.0-1 armhf X.Org X server -- libinput input driver
>
> >
> > "it is failing" is a bit generic, what exactly doesn't work?
>
> The XServer does not start -- I type startx, and after a brief startup blather
> and a brief screen blanking, it lands back at the shell prompt.
check the journal for any info. I noticed in the log that you didn't have
acceleration, so for at least GNOME that could be a reason to drop you back.
Cheers,
Peter
> The log file
> is all I have. Yes, it appears that XServer sees everything, but for some
> reason just exits after it has finished probing... No "obvious" (to me) reason
> (I have seen Xservers die for various reasons, like bad video timing rates on
> unsupported video chips, or totally missing mice and/or keyboards -- mostly in
> the "bad old days" where one had to set things up properly in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf. I believe these days, one does not bother with
> hand-crafter conf files -- the XServer figures itself out "on the fly". (Or
> not as the case might be...)
>
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Peter
> >
> >
>
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