[OpenIndiana-discuss] Why would X11 not start?

[Reginald Beardsley]

After poking through /var/adm/messages it became clear that SMF had disabled cde-login. I tried 

svcadm enable -r /application/graphical-login/cde-login

but that didn't solve the issue. Once again I just get an nVidia splash screen. 

svcs -xv /application/graphical-login/cde-login

did not tell me anything useful. Just "disabled by administrator"

Unfortunately, I've never really gotten a good understanding of the SMF system. There were messages in /var/dt/Xerrors "Referenced uninitialized screen in layout!", but nothing else.

I'd really like to get this beast running properly so I can work on updating my Hipster instance.

Reg



     On Monday, February 22, 2021, 06:04:27 PM CST, Reginald Beardsley via openindiana-discuss <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org> wrote:  
 
 I finally finished scrubbing the 3 pools on the system.  There were no errors reported.  In single user mode "zfs mount -a" seemed to mount everything as it should.  I checked the timestamps on the xorg.conf file in /etc/X11 which was last modified in 2016.  

But when I exit single user mode I get the nVidia splash  screen.  Same thing if I just let grub do a normal boot.  I don't get an xdm login prompt as I did before it crashed.  

With zfs reporting no errors I'm at a loss as to why the system is not displaying the xdm login screen.  I've not yet gone to look at the X error log, but that is next.

The system is not hung because if I press the soft power switch it will revert to the console and shutdown properly.

Anyone have any ideas?  It reliably comes up single user.

Very puzzled,
Reg

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