Hi,
I create this thread for the question I asked in this one.
I usually start X at boot time in this way:
But since Xorg 1.20 this doesn't work anymore. It took me time to find any relevant log on my machine but, actually as kpedersen said, it's because now X doesn't want to be launched from a non-interactive console.
I finally found that cron tried to email me the problem and since there is no MTA configured, the log ended in my home directory in dead.letter.
I well noticed that there is another means to automatically run X: make the system to autolog a user and startx at login. But I find that less simple and elegant that the cron stuff.
I searched for days a solution but didn't find anything (except one trick from linux for linux); not even the list of options of
Is anyone can point me in the right direction?
I create this thread for the question I asked in this one.
I usually start X at boot time in this way:
Code:
#minute hour mday month wday who command
@reboot Emrion startx
But since Xorg 1.20 this doesn't work anymore. It took me time to find any relevant log on my machine but, actually as kpedersen said, it's because now X doesn't want to be launched from a non-interactive console.
I finally found that cron tried to email me the problem and since there is no MTA configured, the log ended in my home directory in dead.letter.
/usr/local/bin/X: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
xinit: server error
I well noticed that there is another means to automatically run X: make the system to autolog a user and startx at login. But I find that less simple and elegant that the cron stuff.
I searched for days a solution but didn't find anything (except one trick from linux for linux); not even the list of options of
xinit
or startx
...Is anyone can point me in the right direction?