Help to start X

[Terence Simpson]

Earl Violet wrote:
> --- Eduard Bonet <bonedu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
>   
>> Can anyone give me a hint on what to do, please?
>>     
>  Maybe try 
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
>
> as a start.  This should reset X
>
> Earl
>
>   
That should help, but the error that drew my attention is:
/usr/bin/startx: line 169: /dev/null: Permission denied

It seems that the file /dev/null isn't writeable to your use, it needs 
to be.