Bug 1296392

Summary: graphical access broken, not even startx works
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Doug Maxey <bz>
Component: xorg-x11-xinitAssignee: X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Doug Maxey 2016-01-07 05:20:16 UTC
Created attachment 1112349 [details]
latest Xorg.9.log

Description of problem:
startx stopped working after fedup from f21 on Dec 24, and the reboot today.  Was working from 2015-12-24 until last previous reboot on 2016-01-02.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.4-10.fc23.x86_64
kernel-core-4.2.8-300.fc23.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

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Actual results:
xserver appears to be starting, then after a few seconds just exits.

Expected results:
running X11 session

Additional info:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV620 GL [FirePro V3700]

Why do I use startx?  hehe.  gdm et al stopped working for me circa f19.  and the non-working login has never been a real big issue as I could always do 'startx'.  until today.

Comment 1 Doug Maxey 2016-01-11 16:43:05 UTC
yup.  Once again, something in .profile upsets the startx.