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Re: X11 recently failing to start the first time after boot

dummy@example.com (Altoid) — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 01:21:12 +0000

Hello:

fsmithred wrote:

1101HAB Atom Z520 @1.33GHz 2G RAM and 128GB SSD

I see.
Seashell (?), larger screen (?) than mine.

fsmithred wrote:

Every new release gets bigger.

Yes.
I've noticed that.

Like I wrote in another non-related thread:

altoid wrote:

--- snip ---
Devuan Chimaera netinstall *.iso: 372.00 MB - UEFI installer: 00.754 MB
Devuan Daedalus netinstall *.iso: 477.80 MB - UEFI installer: 23.00 MB
30X more code has been added to the UEFI partition on the road between Chimaera and Daedalus.
Does anyone really know exactly what all that added code does?
--- snip ---

I'll stay with Chimaera then, maybe go for a backported kernel if I can find a justification for doing so.
The hardware will certainly not change so at some point in the future it may well be a good idea to roll a custom kernel for it and leave it at that.

The 1000HE is the best piece of portable hardware I ever purchased (used in 2011).

Thanks for the data.

Best,

Re: X11 recently failing to start the first time after boot

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:14:44 +0000

1101HAB Atom Z520 @1.33GHz 2G RAM and 128GB SSD
Daedalus and Excalibur work on it.
Every new release gets bigger.

Re: X11 recently failing to start the first time after boot

dummy@example.com (Altoid) — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:40:55 +0000

Hello:

fsmithred wrote:

... daedalus on asus EEE with 686-pae kernel ...

An OT question, if I may: what Asus EEE model would that be?

I have been running my 1000HE (Intel N280 Atom / 2.0Gb) on Chimaera (5.10.0-0.deb10.16-686-pae) for a long while now and was wondering if it would make sense to move on to Daedalus.

Best,

Re: X11 recently failing to start the first time after boot

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:45:01 +0000

Before:
2:21.1.7-3+deb12u8devuan1

After:
2:21.1.7-3+deb12u9devuan1

apt policy xserver-common  # same output for xserver-xorg-core
 *** 2:21.1.7-3+deb12u9devuan1 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2:21.1.7-3+deb12u8devuan1 100
        100 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-proposed-updates/main i386 Packages
     2:21.1.7-3+deb12u7devuan1 500
        500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus/main i386 Packages

Re: X11 recently failing to start the first time after boot

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:33:08 +0000

"before latest upgrade", "after latest upgrade" as well as "updates that came maybe a week ago" are all pretty lousy version identifiers.

Re: X11 recently failing to start the first time after boot

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 10:40:54 +0000

I can only offer a data point - it's not happening here running daedalus on asus EEE with 686-pae kernel, minimal lxqt with no display manager. Tested before and after latest upgrade which gave me xserver-xorg-core and xserver-common.

X11 recently failing to start the first time after boot

dummy@example.com (semil) — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:20:00 +0000

This is happening on my occasionally-used 32-bit x86 computer. It seems to have started with the X11 updates that came maybe a week ago.

I startx, and get xf86OpenConsole: Switching VT failed

and the Xorg log has xf86OpenConsole: VT_ACTIVATE failed: Bad file descriptor

Not a lot of detail.

The second startx has been succeeding.