X related problems in 10.1

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 5:37 PM, Lokadamus <lokadamus at gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 03.12.2014 23:56, schrieb Fernando Apesteguía:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since I upgraded my old laptop to 10.1 release I'm seeing some weird
>> behavior when I try to launch the X server (I use startx for this).
>>
>> Sometimes, the screen goes blank and the error message in the log is:
>>
>> config/hal: couldn't initialise context: unknown error (null)
>>
>> Other times, fluxbox starts correctly but I don't have neither mouse
>> nor keyboard and the error message is this:
>>
>> (EE) config/hal: couldn't find input device:
>> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Disconnected (Connection was disconnected
>> before a reply was received)
>>
>> But sometimes, the X server starts just fine.
>>
>> I can post my xorg.conf if necessary.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks.
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> Hi,
>
> Can you post your /var/log/xorg.log?

Well, apparently no need now. gnome-terminal was not working either.
The reason was that gnome-terminal-server didn't start due to not
having a UTF-8 locale. I fixed that in /etc/login.conf and that
somehow fixed my other problem.

Anyway, thanks a lot!

>
> Regards
>