> 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. > > > Perhaps you should have it actually start a window manager, eg "exec openbox-session" or whatever your preferred wm is.
