On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 01:57:53PM +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Are you using systemd?
Nope, this particular machine is still sysvinit. It also has over 20 years worth of cruft on it, as i first built it in 1994 and have continuously upgraded it (with debian unstable) ever since. > is libpam-systemd installed on your machine? Yes, because without it several important packages would be uninstalled, including libvirt packages for some unfathomable reason - it's impossible to have a completely non-systemd machine in debian, you can either have systemd or you can have a hybrid of systemd + whatever else. systemd, or at least parts of it, is mandatory. It is not enabled in /etc/pam.d/ though. None of the files in there use it. and, yes, I have tried it with libpam_systemd enabled. Makes no difference. > If it's not the case, try to install xserver-xorg-legacy and look at > Xwrapper.config man page What good would that do? What would it fix, and how? I am running neither legacy drivers nor non-linux kernels. startx worked without this until recently, i'd rather not digress into installing and configuring random packages unless there's a good and clearly defined reason for it. craig -- craig sanders <c...@taz.net.au>
