Or it may be that no permission, for example, is not his .Xauthority, .xsession file
wrong file ownership, which can be fixed by sudo chown username.usergroup /home/username/.Xauthority wrong file permissions, which can be fixed by sudo chmod u=rw go= /home/username/.Xauthority //or chmod +755 ... But it can be like a part of the epiphany-browser... 2016-09-21 22:52 GMT+02:00 Stephen Powell <zlinux...@fastmail.com>: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2016, at 16:32, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > > I did notice one thing peculiar. startx output is written to the > terminal > > of vt1, of course, even though it's running as a background task. And I > got > > the error message > > > > modprobe: FATAL: Module mach64 not found in directory /lib/modules/xxx > > > > where xxx is the identity of the running kernel. Strange. The kernel > has > > never had a mach64 module in it, as far as I know. mach64 is the name > > of the X driver, but there is no kernel module by that name. > > One other thing I noticed. It may or may not be related. "web" (i.e. > epiphany-browser) is broken. When I click on the icon for changing > settings > (including listing bookmarks), nothing happens. I switched back to > chromium, > which seems to be working fine. > > Lovely "upgrade", Debian! > > -- > .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@fastmail.com> > : :' : > `. `'` > `- > >
