On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 12:37:01 -0700 stan via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:55:37 -0800 > Geoffrey Leach <geoffleach...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > suspend failed to do its thing, so I powered-down. <rebooting > > failed, dropping me into the <root login. As far as I could tell > > from the log, startup correctly, but no X. Running startx as root > > gave me a display. However, running startx as a normal user, fails. > > > > So, I have the startx log, but its unclear what its telling me. Is > > there a "guide to interpretation of startx messages'"? > > > > Or suggestions as to what might have failed? > > If root succeeds, but normal user doesn't, it sounds like a > permissions problem somewhere. As root, try > setenforce 0 > and then try again as a user. That makes selinux permissive, you can > return to enforcing with > setenforce 1 > > You might post some of the message from var/log/Xorg*.log or > journalctl -r to see what is happening when you try to start X. > > What desktop are you trying to start. It might be worth a try to use > the exact command that starts that desktop. > > Could it be that you are actually running a wayland desktop, and so X > is not available? Thanks to all. As it happens I was running lightdm with selinux disabled. Just spend the day installing v36. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
