On Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:29:29 +0400, Igor Mosyagin wrote: > Hello there. > > Would your system still fail with empty .xinitrc? (mv ~/.xinitrc > ~/dangerous_xinitrc && touch ~/.xinitrc) Yes, the system fails with empty ~/.xinitrc. Actually it supposed to fail according with this snippet from "Testing X" chapter of Beginner's Guide: "... there will be an empty .xinitrc file in your $HOME that you need to either delete or edit in order to start a graphical environment. Simply deleting it will cause X to run with the default environment (twm, xclock, xterm)." In my case X starts only if ~/.xinitrc file does not exist at all. > Is that line is only one you have in your .xinitrc? Yes, I have only 2 lines I mentioned in my original post. > Do you have system xinitrc? (/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc) Yes, I do. > Is it empty? No, it is not. It's rather full and contains all default entries, since I've never touched it. Another thing to mention. As I've found that the error I reported originally: "/usr/bin/startx: Line 127: hostname: command not found", apparently has nothing to do with the problem. It is displayed each time I successfully start X and then kill it. The error then reported upon X exit. It looks to me now that Karol's suggestion of hostname being deprecated is correct and is the reason of the error being thrown up. So, the only thing remained for now :-) is to find why X fails start with ~/.xinitrc present and being edited as suggested by guide.
