Alternative to StartX

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

What's an alternative to the command "StartX"?

I'm trying to pull up the GUI on one of my VMs but StartX wont work

 

[Rob]

Are you using all lowercase?

You could just try an "init 5" to put it into runlevel 5 and see if x starts automatically..

 

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

Thanks Rob I'll try that

 

[Rob]

Oh, and what's the error w/ startx?

 

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

Rob:
Yes I'm using all lowercase.
I also tried init 5 under root and I'm getting a "Command not found" error

 

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

Command not found error for both

 

[Rob]

try:
/sbin/init 5

or
/usr/bin/startx

 

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

I tried the /sbin/init 5 command. It's doing something however, it's currently frozen with this message "INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes"

Not sure what it's going to do after 5 minutes... waiting...

 

[Rob]

whee ctrl-c out of that and try the /usr/bin/startx

I haven't had x issues in quite a while - otherwise i'd probably be more help

 

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

Got another one of those "disabled" message..

Tried the /usr/bin/startx command and got this message: No such file or directory

 

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

haha

 

[Rob]

What was the last thing you did before it stopped working

If it's just a workstation.. give it a reboot and see if whatever funkiness is going on will go away..

Did you edit any config files related to the x server?

 

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

What was the last thing you did before it stopped working

If it's just a workstation.. give it a reboot and see if whatever funkiness is going on will go away..

Did you edit any config files related to the x server?

I figured it out. The ISO I was working on did not have x in it and it wasn't designed to do gui stuff.

 

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

It's like trying to buy burrito in an ice cream joint.

 

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

Got another one of those "disabled" message..

Tried the /usr/bin/startx command and got this message: No such file or directory

Disregard this thread. The ISO I was working on didn't have X in it.

 

[carbon333]

For the future readers: the best alternative to startx is lightdm.

 

[Rory Glenn Pascua]

For the future readers: the best alternative to startx is lightdm.

Thank you