On Wed, 28 Oct 2015 02:44:10 +0000 (UTC) John DeVito <john.dev...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I ran into an issue today where X is not working after andupgrade of > Stretch. The pervasive errorI am seeing is related to dbus-core. > Xorg.0.log says ... Failed to connect to > socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket. Manual attempts to navigate > to that directory shows that /var/run exists, but the dbus directory > is not below 'run'. If I try to run startx it briefly brings up the > initial screen but then X crashes and results in a command prompt > environment again. I am also getting errors when trying to use apt, > saying that no sources can be resolved. Seems like this latest round > of updates really introduced some issues. 1. Your subject says sid and in the message you say stretch. Which one did you upgrade? 2. Do you have systemd intalled? There was a recent update to xorg-server in sid, which makes it run under a regular user instead of root, so now it relies on logind. If you do not have systemd installed, you need to install xserver-xorg-legacy, which contains the setuid wrapper used to run X as root (as before). Of course, your apt problem can't be related to this upgrade. -- Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. Best wishes, Alex S.
