[nmglug] No GUI desktop=added info

[okeefe at cybermesa.com]

Sorry for dribbling this in but I ran #who# and for the first time found
that ubuntuguest has a DISPLAY value of (:0) EHO NO VALUE FOR ME,
"Ubuntu". I had just run #export DISPLAY="0.0# logged in as me in the
command line. However if I ctr+alt+f7 I am back in the ubuntuguest GUI. 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
>>
>> --
>> sam
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