I ran the Software Manager and now startx doesn't start anymore. After I start my laptop and log in, the screen stays stuck on the login page (I tried with both gdm and lightdm).
Switching to console and starting startx manually I get the following errors:
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/serverauth.XXXXXXXXXX’: Permission denied
xauth: file does not exist
xauth: unable to link authority file , use -n
use: X [:<display>] [option]
-a # default pointer acceleration (factor)
-ac disable access control restrictions
-audit int set audit trail level
-auth file select authorization file
...
Initializing built-in extension DRI2
Loading extension GLX
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: Cannot open "/tmp/filegRxhGH" to write keyboard description
> Exiting
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Error: Cannot open "/tmp/fileb9Lgzg" to write keyboard description
> Exiting
XKB: Failed to compile keymap
Keyboard initialization failed. This could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config.
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Failed to activate core devices.(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.1.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: unexpected signal 2
I found reference to multiple similar problems and have tried various things.
Making sure I have enough space disk: here's a df output, it doesn't seem to be the problem.
root@blackbox:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 22G 18G 2.9G 87% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 376M 1.2M 374M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /run/shm
none 100M 4.0K 100M 1% /run/user
The permission of my .Xauthority file are wrong at startup:
root@blackbox:~# ls /home/florian/.Xauthority -al
-rw------- 1 root root 155 Mar 23 17:10 /home/florian/.Xauthority
However if I chown the file and reboot I still have the same problem.
I have uninstalled (with purge) and reinstalled xserver-xorg and ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg but no luck.
Update If I stop the display manager before retrying to start startx I get the following errors:
xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/florian/.Xauthority
...
Loading extension GLX
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Compat map for group 2 redefined
> Using new definition
> Warning: Compat map for group 3 redefined
> Using new definition
> Warning: Compat map for group 4 redefined
> Using new definition
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
(II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
xinit: connection to X server lost
^M
waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
xinit: unexpected signal 2
xauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/florian/.Xauthority
The only solution I found is to run startx as root, then it works but I shouldn't need to do that!
Update 2 The best solution I found so far is to switch to virtual terminal, remove the .Xauthority file then run ´startx´. But I need to do this every time I boot.
sudo service lightdm stop) before attempting tostartxfrom the virtual terminal? – steeldriver Mar 23 '14 at 17:31.Xauthorityfile? – steeldriver Mar 23 '14 at 19:46