pidora graphical desktop not starting

lapishater276 · 07-14-2014, 07:34 PM

I am attempting to run pidora on my raspberry pi, but when I enter the startx command, the graphics start, but then it says "a problem has occuredand the system cannot recover. please log out and try again." when the x server shuts down, the only error I can see is
xauth: file /home/pi/.serverauth.597 does not exist.
is this a common problem, or will it take a while to fix?

timl · 07-15-2014, 06:09 PM

I found pidora quite difficult to use and reverted to rasbian after a while. I didn't have any problems with graphics.

Any problems at install time? Directly after startx can you try (as root):

Quote:

cat /var/log/messages

this might give more info on your problem

lapishater276 · 07-15-2014, 07:54 PM

I have tried everything I could. I used the occidial fedora ARM installer and win32diskimager. there are no install errors. the firstboot graphics started fine, so I do not know what the issue is. the one error I found in the logs is
localhost gnome-session[383]: WARNING: Unable to find required component 'gnome-shell'
is this a solvable issue

timl · 07-16-2014, 04:51 PM

Ya got me beat

Have you tried the pidora forum over at raspberrypi? They might have suggestions.

http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=51

Cheers

stoggy · 08-23-2014, 03:07 AM

check if you have lots of .serverauth-XXXX files in /home/$USER

ls -la $HOME/.serverauth*

if so delete them

rm $HOME/.serverauth*

If not check if home is mounted RO. The last entry will tell you, (rw) = read/write (ro) = read only

mount | grep home

If its read-only, remount it.

sudo mount -o remount,rw /home

If it wont remount rw, you maybe having disk issues, post back... ?