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I recently successfully installed Arch Linux in VirtualBox, for the first time. I want to install FVWM, so I installed X Server, and then ran pacman -S fvwm
. It says that fvwm has been installed, but the terminal still stays there and there is no windowing. I know I am probably doing something stupid, but I'm not sure what. Please tell me what I am doing wrong.
Update: I installed GDM. When I select "fvwm" in the menu and enter my password, the screen turns black, several console messages with a green "okay" status to the left appear, the screen goes black again, and then it turns gray and returns to the login screen.
What happens if you run
startx
? If that does not work, post your/usr/bin/startx
file. – terdon – 2013-10-12T03:28:15.760@terdon: When I run
startx
, the screen goes black and resizes, but then nothing happens and ctrl-c doesn't work. I have reboot through the virtualbox menu. – hkk – 2013-10-12T20:50:00.967@terdon: I see the
/usr/bin/startx
and I am able to access it through nano, but I am not sure how to post it since I just installed Arch. – hkk – 2013-10-12T20:50:57.957Just check if there is an
exec fvwm
line at the end, there shouldn't be, but just in case. Try what MariusMatutiae suggests, if that fails, just addexec fvwm
to the end ofstartx
. Oh, and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace should let you exit after you've run startx. – terdon – 2013-10-12T23:24:04.053Neither of the suggestions worked. Also, when I run
startx
still goes black, andCtrl+Alt+Backspace
doesn't work. I get the errorxauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/cloudcoder2000/.Xauthority
. It pops up 3 times, then I see several output messages, and then finally the screen goes black. – hkk – 2013-10-13T23:45:12.640I just got the same black screen again, and I didn't power off this time. After a few minutes, the error message
No protocol specified
popped up several times, then the messagexinit: giving up
thenxinit: unable to connect to X server: Resource temporarily unavailable
followed bywaiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
and thenxinit: server error
and finallyxauth: timeout in locking authority file /home/cloudcoder2000/.Xauthority
. It then returns to a terminal line. – hkk – 2013-10-13T23:52:56.977Is this after a fresh reboot? It sounds like there is another X session running or one crashed. Have you read through this?
– terdon – 2013-10-13T23:56:09.020I re-installed X Server and rebooted.
startx
works properly when I runsudo startx
but still goes to the blank black screen when I only runstartx
. – hkk – 2013-10-14T00:54:03.250Compare
/root/.xinitrc
and$HOME/.xinitrc
. Also, try deleting your~/.Xauthority
file in case you've changed its permissions or something. It will be recreated next time you try to log in. – terdon – 2013-10-14T00:56:28.470let us continue this discussion in chat
– hkk – 2013-10-14T00:59:51.590