<div dir="ltr">this is a pretty interesting troubleshoot</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 7:14 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com" target="_blank">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Sorry for dribbling this in but I ran #who# and for the first time found<br>
that ubuntuguest has a DISPLAY value of (:0) EHO NO VALUE FOR ME,<br>
"Ubuntu". I had just run #export DISPLAY="0.0# logged in as me in the<br>
command line. However if I ctr+alt+f7 I am back in the ubuntuguest GUI. On<br>
Fri, March 16, 2018 6:48 pm,<br>
<a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a> wrote:<br>
> On Fri, March 16, 2018 11:24 am, <a href="mailto:s@mnoble.net">s@mnoble.net</a> wrote:<br>
> Thanks Sam! I had ck'e log files previously with no errors but now I<br>
have one. Interestingly this last reboot booted straight into the guest<br>
and lightdm (where that wm came from is beyond me!). Can't login to any<br>
wm as me though. Here's the log file error:<br>
> #(EE) open /dev/fb0: permission denied#<br>
> after finding correct syntax for the log file ;)<br>
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>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 08:32:29AM -0600, <a href="mailto:okeefe@cybermesa.com">okeefe@cybermesa.com</a> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Probably worth looking for clues here:<br>
>>> (==) Log file: "home/ubuntu/.localshare/xorg/<wbr>Xorg.1.log" time, (current<br>
> time)<br>
>> Can we see something like:<br>
>> $grep -2 '(EE)' ~/.localshare/xorg/Xorg.1.log<br>
>><br>
>> But my guess is this problem will turn out to be about too many display<br>
> managers or<br>
>> multiple X sessions or X fighting with wayland or whatever the ubuntu<br>
> wayland-competitor was called etc.<br>
>> I'd be interested in seeing if any X servers are running.<br>
>> Maybe something like:<br>
>> $ps ax | grep Xorg<br>
>> or even<br>
>> $ps ax | grep X<br>
>><br>
>> And if you find a process running X it's probably a display manager that<br>
> you aren't using, and maybe it can be shut off i.e:<br>
>> $sudo /etc/init.d/somedm stop<br>
> The only process I could see was Xorg (from "top")<br>
><br>
> Thanks so much. I know that all the parts are there but getting them<br>
ordered seems to be the issue<br>
>><br>
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