Haines Brown via Dng said on Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:26:17 -0500

>I use netinst to do an expert install of Devuan on an SSD. The first
>thing I do when I boot to the newly installed operating system is to
>install xorg and fluxbox. However, the .fluxbox folder does not show
>up in my user account. I can only conclude I messed up somewhere in
>the installation and so now outline what I did.
>
>I generally accepted defauts. The SSD was already partitioned and so I
>had the partitioner simply format them, assign ext4 files system,
>define mount points and labels for the partitions other than EF00 and
>swap. I had eleven partititions because /var/mail and /usr/local are
>broken out.
>
>I added backports to fstab
>
>For task selection, I un-selected desktop environment and xfce. I added
>SSH.
>
>I chose sysVinit
>
>I booted to the newly installed opoerating system and the first thing
>I did was to do # apt-get install xorg and # apt-get fluxbox. $ ls -la
>/home/haines shows some hidden files, but not .fluxbox. There is a
>/usr/bin fluxbox. My user in /home is haines it and has 755 permision.
>
>I tried # apt-get -f reinstall firefox.
>
>Where did I go wrong in the installation?

First, you need to tell us the symptom. What about your boot into
fluxbox indicated to you that there was a malfunction? And be sure
you've installed xterm, because at least on Void, xinit stupidly fails
if xterm isn't installed.

I can't possibly tell you where you went wrong, if indeed you went
wrong at all, but here's what I'd do if I were in your situation:

1. I'd make sure I boot to CLI, not to GUI. This divides the whole
landscape of possibilities in half. Once everything's functioning
properly, you can (but why, what's wrong with startx?) have it boot
to one of those things that automatically brings up GUI.

2. Try again, and run startx from the command line.

3. Try running startx as root, as yourself, and as a brand new test
user. If the user account makes a difference, that's valuable
information.

4. Look at ~/.xinitrc to see if there's anything obvious.

5. From the command line, issue the xinit command. If it works, you're
that much closer to a solution. If it doesn't stay in GUI mode, read
the error messages.

SteveT

Steve Litt

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