Next I began moving some configuration directories and files, ones starting with a dot, out of the way until X11 started again.Īnd then I started moving things back to figure out which one prevented startx earlier. Next I mounted the old home partition to /home and chowned the user’s home directory with its contents, because the uid had changed. I created my normal user account and now got X11 and kde started with it! It also created a new /home partition, but it doesn’t matter either. I had never had a separate /boot partition on that machine before, the /boot directory had always been on the root partition. This time the installation succeeded, but it had created a /boot partition as sda1 and now it had sda4 as the new root partition of the installation. I let it recycle the existing sda1 because its earlier contents had probably already been written over in the previous installation trials, and I thougt it might want to use the beginning of that partition to something else. Fortunately it let me define which existing partitins I want to keep and which ones to recycle. I had some unpartitioned space left at the end of the disk anyway. I launched the command window and tried grub2-install /dev/sda, but it didn’t work, the error message complained about some space problem (don’t remember the exact message).Īfter some more failed installation trials I finally gave up trying to define the partition the way I wanted and let the installation program do the partitions.
Startx command not found debian 9 install#
It started installing, but ended with an error message of not being able to install boot loader. I tried to just define the root partition to sda1 and not touch any other partitions, meaning to use the same home and swap partitions I used with the sda7 installation. I booted to the F35 live image and started the “Install to disk” program, don’t remember the exact name on the icon. The sda1 installation had some network glitch I hadn’t bothered to figure out, so I had used the sda7 installation for some release versions. I had an earlier installation of an older Fedora version on sda1 partition, and the upgraded F35 on sda7 which had been my working installation for some time.
Startx command not found debian 9 trial#
And some trial and error, because I never remember to take notes about every step, and some things may just have been better configured in some earlier version by default. I tend to avoid it whenever possible, because getting the configurations back to the way I want always takes some time and head-scratching. I hesitate upgrading my main computer to F35 before I get this thing sorted out, in case it might show the same symptoms.ĭuring the weekend I finally gave up trying to get the configuration or packages working to allow kde, and decided to do the clean install. I found the desktop switcher application by typing “sw” in the search bar, but it doesn’t show KDE, only Gnome desktop and System default.Īny idea what I may be missing, and what could prevent startx with my normal user account? There’s a Xorg.0.log file from a failed attempt and rpm package list from December attached to the bugzilla entry I mentioned ( 2029404 – X11 doesn't start in Fedora 35 ), I have updated all rpm packets that have newer versions in the repository, but nothing has helped so far. No start menu in the taskbar, in the left there is only “Activities” which changes the display and shows Firefox and file cabinet icons and a 3x3 grid in the bottom and the 3x3 grid brings icons to the screen in alphabetical order with no grouping. To test if the problem was some personal settings in my home directory, I created a test account and when I did startx with that account, it apparently started the gnome desktop.
I installed fedora-release-identity-kde to see if it would bring some kde dependencies that might be missing, but it didn’t.
I filed a bug report in bugzilla ( 2029404 – X11 doesn't start in Fedora 35 ) in December, but so far it appears that nobody has reacted to it.Ĭomparing package lists between the old computer and my main one (still runninig F34), I didn’t notice anything relevant missing, but I noticed that the old one had the package fedora-release-identity-basic instead of fedora-release-identity-kde of the new one.
When I do startx, it turns the display off for a while, then instead of showing the graphical interface it returns back to text mode. I originally installed Fedora12 when the machine was new, and have always upgraded it with system-upgrade.Īfter upgrading to Fedora 35, I haven’t been able to use X11. In November I upgraded my 12-year-old secondary computer from Fedora34 to Fedora35 with dnf system-upgrade. I run my computers in what used to be called runlevel 3, logging in to a text mode virtual console and starting X11 with the startx command, and I use the KDE desktop.
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