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startx is a front-end script to run xinit used to manually start an X display server.
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Permission issues seem to be preventing use of startx - why? How can I fix?
I try startx and it freezes for ages, then returns "xauth: timeout in locking authority file //.Xauthority". … X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: connection refused
How it worked before: Booted to terminal thing, I could just type in 'startx …
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Permission issues seem to be preventing use of startx - why? How can I fix?
(In the sense that I can at least now startx, I still can't startx as the pi user though...) Thought I'd share how just in case anyone else finds themselves in this position... … #Change directory to the broken user, which I couldn't do before...
cd /home/pi/
#Rename .Xauthority file with...
mv .Xauthority OLD.Xauthority
reboot
startx
And yeah. It worked. …