Hi If I drop to runlevel 3 (no X running by default) then startx is observed to be broken. Actually technically it is "xinit" or the X server that is broken. The broken behaviour is 15 seconds of waiting at a blank X screen before my window manager is launched. Closer inspection reveals that "xinit" is waiting for a signal from the X server, which NEVER ARRIVES, hence a 15 second timeout Can you reproduce?? If not tell me ASAP and I will be more specific
Have some additional comments :-) It appears to be a race condition. If I boot to runlevel 3 and type "startx", my X session launches fine. If I exit the X session, and type "startx" again, all the binaries are cached and load very quickly. Because of this speed increase, the race condition is observed - startx hangs for 15 seconds showing a blank X screen.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2402 ***