Install sidbang, and having issues...

[gooberfoob]

I have installed sidbang. When at tty1 I did username gooberfoob, and created the user profile the password. Rebooted, and back at tty1 I logged in as gooberfoob and as I typed startX, it failed. When I log in as root and use the password I created in the installation gui I can start startX. I am not sure why this is happening. Attached are pictures, sorry about the low quality.

[gooberfoob]

I derped and added two of the same....my brain hurts.

[machinebacon]

I would recommend to delete gooberfoob, create gooberfoob user again, and give it a password.

Log in as root, do not start X, but issue:

deluser gooberfoob
adduser gooberfoob

Hope it helps.

[gooberfoob]

I deleted gooberfoob and added gooberfoob again. I logged in as gooberfoob, and did startx and still got the same result.

[machinebacon]

Please give me an hour or two, I gotta grab old Sidbang 64 and have a test on the spare machine.

[machinebacon]

Oh, another question:

can you log in as 'bbq' with password 'bbq'? This should actually work...

[gooberfoob]

I was requested to post my .xinitrc file

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#!/bin/bash

# This is a sample .xinitrc file (to be executed with xinit or startx)


# source the Xresources for the terminal
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources &

# Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills the X session
setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp

# sets your keyboard to 'us' keymap
setxkbmap us &

# call /usr/include/ulimit.h
ulimit -c unlimited &

# helpful to have keycombos set - see also ~/.xbindkeysrc
xbindkeys &

# set a solid background
xsetroot -solid "#1a1a1a" &

# make the cursor point in the 'right' direction
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr &

# set a wallpaper after 2 seconds
sleep 2s && hsetroot -fill /usr/share/wallpapers/black-minimalistic.jpg &

# this makes dual heads work better
#vgascript &

# got time?
#sleep 2s && osd_clock -f  -*-neep-*-*-*-*-11-*-*-*-*-*-*- -c white -s 1 -r -t -o -14 &

# candy
#compton -bcCGf -i 0.8 -e 0.8 --no-fading-openclose &

# execute session:
# if you have consolekit and dbus running:
#exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session cwm

# else something like:
exec cwm

is this the right file ?

[machinebacon]

It is the right file, but the last line is wrong. Replace it:

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exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session openbox-session

You can either use "startx" or "bbqlogin" to start the session.

[gooberfoob]

here is my .xsession-errors

http://pastebin.com/NBwj2w6v


sorry, for not using pastebin on the above reply, and I am not able to log in as bbq.

[machinebacon]

Thank you. See the post above ;) this will fix everything.

You can additionally edit /etc/skel/.xinitrc and apply the same changes there. This will be valid for future newly created users then.

Sorry for the inconvenience, you can blame me personally :)

[gooberfoob]

THANK YOU it worked !!!!

[tenkainen]

Also, you might want to comment out the xbindkeys, or install it if you use it. At least according to the second screenshot.

[rhowaldt]

i edited your post with the xinitrc, added code-tags for readability and such. glad it works :)

[pidsley]

And I moved your other duplicate support topic to /tmp/dumpster. This is not a bad thing, just cleaning up a now-useless duplicate topic.

Welcome to the grill, gooberfoob.