Hi guys,

I installed Audacity becuase I wanted to do some sound editing. It crashed several times and I could not use it. Had to restart because the mouse pointer froze.

However, after restarting, I end up with a blank screen with only a cursor. I realized that I could reach a tty by pressing ctrl-alt-F1 and there I could login. After slapping on the suid-bit on startx I can now start an x-session as a regular user.

However, I would like to repair this properly. Could you help me with this?

uname -a says
Linux athos 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.46-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

But I bet you want some more info than that. I stand ready to give more info if you tell me what you need to know.

Kind regards
Johnny

HOW?
there are many many many ways
and some will kill a operating system

also
please include needed information
like
What is your operating system?
and
WHAT version is it ?

Hi John,

Thank you for your reply.

I installed Audacity with apt-get install audacity, after audacity had crashed a number of times, a restart was needed and that was when I discovered that X did not kick in. I was worried then but remembered the trick of pressing ctrl-alt-F1 to get a tty and get a login and work textually. This was when I went in as root and uninstalled audacity and put on setuid-bit on startx, from that point I am able to get X running as a user.

So I believe that the issue is that I would like X to start automatically as before, that I did stuff with audacity is maybe not so important. (I removed it hence, however it did not fix the problem.)

I run Debian Wheezy and please tell me what other information you need, as I said I do believe that X is the problem, maybe the thing that starts X automatically has gone awry, I can't remember it's name? Is it xdm or gdm or something like that?

Kind regards
Johnny