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I noticed that x11-common is reported as not-running with sudo service --status-all. And I recall Ubuntu working on a replacement for X, but am not aware of this being in use, yet.

When checking ps -faux, I see lightdm running, with a child-process /usr/bin/X -core :0 ..., so it seems X is still running.

Can I remove the x11-common service? Why would it be in the services, yet not be (reported as) started?

Note that this is a rather old machine, who has seen upgrades from very early Ubuntu-versions, it may very well be some cruft that remained around after re-configuring something in the past.

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x11-common does not start a daemon. What it does do is make some directories, with correct permissions, etc. service --status-all reports it as not running, because for it to be considered as running, the exit status of /etc/init.d/x11-commmon should be zero, which it is, and there should some output, which there isn't.

$ service x11-common status && echo yes
yes

Don't delete it.

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  • Am I understanding you correct, when I summarize as "service --status-all is reporting the wrong status, because it is somewhat incompatible with the x11-common service" – berkes Dec 22 '15 at 09:01
  • @berkes yes, I suppose. – muru Dec 22 '15 at 09:02