Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X

[Justin Pryzby]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 01:01:38PM +0200, Leszek Koltunski wrote:
> 
> Subject: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
> Package: gdm
> Version: 2.6.0.6-1
> Severity: grave
> 
> I decided to 'dpkg -P gdm' yesterday and 'startx' wont start X any more
> when issued by normal user 'leszek'. ( root can start it )
> 
> X server starts, ( I added a 'echo Got here! > ~/startx' to ~/.xinitrc
> and I get to see the log, also, there are no errors in
> /etc/X11/XFConfig-4.log ) but things go wrong later.
> 
> I think this is not an issue of a crashing WM ( WindowMaker ) because
> I've tried copying all WindowMaker's -working- init settings of root
> to leszek's home dir, to no avail.
> 
> I suspect this may have something to do with the fact that I had 'gdm'
> to auto-login 'leszek' before.
> 
> 'apt-get install gdm' solved the issue for me.
With gdm purged, are you able to run "XFree86" as a normal user?

What if you add a completely new user; does startx work for that user?

Justin