Why I can't use 'startx' command to start X Server on RHEL7 with "X window system" package group?
Issue
- Can't start the X server using the
startx
command, while the basicxinit
command works. -
The server is running RHEL7, installed as a minimal server, only the core and "X window system" package group plus
xterm
are installed. But when try to runstartx
command, it fails with following error:xinit: connection to X server lost waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
-
xinit
command without any options starts fine, butstartx
with the default RHEL7 systemxinitrc
script fails. What is causing this problem?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.2-14.el7.x86_64
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