thanks for letting me out of the rabbit hole!!! On Monday, December 28, 2015 at 12:59:28 PM UTC-8, Hilmar Lapp wrote: > > The latest 4GB Debian wheezy image currently advertised on the website ( > http://beagleboard.org/latest-images) has an issue with not properly > launching the LXDE X11 desktop: > > http://builds.beagleboard.org/images/master/08132bf0d0cb284d1148c5d329fe3c8e1aaee44d/bone-debian-7.9-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-11-12-4gb.img.xz > > Specifically, lxpanel doesn't start automatically, and so you don't get > the task bar, widgets, desktops, etc that come with it launching. The File > Manager doesn't launch either in the intended way, which means that no > desktop wallpaper image will be set. > > The reason is that the file /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart erroneously > can be read only by root. This can be fixed easily (once you know that this > is the problem, which took be countless hours and running down rabbit holes > :-) > > $ sudo chmod a+r /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart > > I can't say anything about other images. They may or may not have the same > issue, but if they do, the same fix will in all likelihood apply. > > Presumably this will be correct in future images because the underlying > bug has already been fixed thanks to Robert [1]. > > -hilmar > > [1] https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-builder/issues/68 > >
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