On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 08:30:44AM -0400, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 09:21:56PM +1100, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
>
> > > But this didn't solve problem. However, the return from the env
> > > command looks strange to me. For example:
> > >
> > > SHELL=/bin/bashpkg-dist=00;90:*.dpkg-old=00;90:*.ucf-dist=00;90:*.ucf-new=00;90:*.ucf-old=
> > > WINDOWID=46137360;90:*.rpmorig=00;90:*.rpmsave=00;90:
> > > G_SEAT=seat0ASS=user
> > > no idea what they mean.
>
> This was because garbate was spontaneously injected as I made lines.
> Loging out and loggin in seems to have fixed that, and the reutrn not
> from $ env looks normal.
>
> > So, "startx" just returns rather than staying running with
> > "startfluxbox" as programmed in ~/.xinitrc ?
>
> So it seems. But no idea why.

The display server, Xorg, writes a log in ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
The Xsession scripting invoked by startx writes a log in ~/.xsession-errors

Is there's something in those?

You could e.g upload them to
$ curl --upload-file FILE https://transfer.rrq.au/$(basneame FILE)
(replacing FILE with actual filename) and post the response links here...

Ralph.

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