Fwd: An experiment in backup

[Kevin O'Gorman]

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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: An experiment in backup
To: ubuntu-users-owner at lists.ubuntu.com, Debian Users <
debian-user at lists.debian.org>


On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Rob Owens <rowens at ptd.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 08:08:27AM -0800, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Curt <curty at free.fr> wrote:
> >
> > > On 2015-01-17, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Can you launch X after logging in to the console?
> > > >>
> > > >
> > > > I don't know how.
> > > >
> > >
> > > startx
> > >
> > >
> > > I did
> > sudo startx
> > Hmmm.  This should be telling me something, but I don't know exactly
> what.
> > It does not come up, but the messages on the screen of the console
> session
> > end with
> >
> > Loading extension XINERAMA
> > setversion 1.4 failed: Permission denied.
>
> You shouldn't need root permission to run startx.  Running startx as a
> user should just bring you into your default desktop environment.  It
> will not load the login manager (GDM, KDM, etc).
>
> -Rob
>

with or without the sudo I get the same result: black screen.

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