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

Sat, 9 Apr 2005 03:47:54 +0200

I am a bit at lost. Maybe it is not an X bug after all.

Could you try with moving ~/.xsession and ~/.xinitrc in a backup
directory before retrying startx with 'leszek'.

As your new user won't have those, it may explain why it works as
'blah'.

You X logs show nothing wrong (the drm thing at the end is just X
cleaning up before closing).

About:
>Fatal server error:
>Cannot move old log file /var/log/XFree86.0.log.old
you can try to move them (old and not old one) from /var/log/ and
retry though as told it is pretty weird (at best i would see it
as an unrelated bug, or maybe your /var partition is full, the
file is an a corrupted disk cluster ... though gdm would fails
too as this file is always moved whatever you use to start X  !).

Can you also try xinit instead of startx ? It will help to check
the problem is in X as it just start X and an xterminal (you can
close X with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or just exit in the xterminal)

Cheers
Alban