On 2/7/23 06:35, Guus Snijders wrote:
Did you check if your login shell is (still) listed in /etc/shells? I can assume you did, but you didn't mention this :).
Yes, I checked and all shells are there. No problem.
Also, try capturing the output of startx. Perhaps there is something useful there that isn't in the journal.
X will not start on the normal kernel or LTS. Exact startx error is "xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused"
In the posted output, there was some dbus error. Did this one happen before also? Perhaps some daemon just needs a reload or restart. Did you try rebooting?
Rebooted and also tried on LTS. Same issue for both linux and linux-LTS, so that seems to eliminate the kernel as the cause. I don't know if the dbus error was there before as I had never had any problem. Checking the journal, the earliest dbus error was on Feb 2: Feb 02 03:24:50 valkyrie lightdm[787]: Error getting user list from org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files But... lightdm, X, etc.. continued to work until the Feb 7 updates. This has "just worked" for nearly a decade. I saw updates to Xorg-server and openssl3 today. Didn't know if that could be related to "connection refused", but I fully upgraded and the problem remains. Xorg.0.log looks fine, there are no issues, so X itself is happy. What changed that now prevents a connection to it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.