[nmglug] No GUI desktop

[okeefe at cybermesa.com]

So I thought that I'd try to run a program from the command line that is
my only user environment so I chose thunderbird. Returned was #Error:
GDK_BACKEND does not match available displays#
So how do I find my available displays? Maybe there's some value in that?

On Fri, March 16, 2018 6:48 pm, okeefe at cybermesa.com wrote:
> On Fri, March 16, 2018 11:24 am, s at mnoble.net wrote:
> Thanks Sam! I had ck'e log files previously with no errors but now I have
> one. Interestingly this last reboot booted straight into the guest and
> lightdm (where that wm came from is beyond me!). Can't login to any wm as
> me though. Here's the log file error:
> #(EE) open /dev/fb0: permission denied#
> after finding correct syntax for the log file ;)
>
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 08:32:29AM -0600, okeefe at cybermesa.com wrote:
>>
>> Probably worth looking for clues here:
>>> (==) Log file: "home/ubuntu/.localshare/xorg/Xorg.1.log" time, (current
> time)
>> Can we see something like:
>> $grep -2 '(EE)' ~/.localshare/xorg/Xorg.1.log
>>
>> But my guess is this problem will turn out to be about too many display
> managers or
>> multiple X sessions or X fighting with wayland or whatever the ubuntu
> wayland-competitor was called etc.
>> I'd be interested in seeing if any X servers are running.
>> Maybe something like:
>> $ps ax | grep Xorg
>> or even
>> $ps ax | grep X
>>
>> And if you find a process running X it's probably a display manager that
> you aren't using, and maybe it can be shut off i.e:
>> $sudo /etc/init.d/somedm stop
> The only process I could see was Xorg (from "top")
>
> Thanks so much. I know that all the parts are there but getting them
> ordered seems to be the issue
>>
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>> sam
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