Crouton on Restored Chromebook after install Chrubuntu wont start xfce4 about crouton HOT 29 CLOSED

startx doesn't work at all with the chroot; not entirely sure why. You can use xinit if you want to manually set up your X11 session. startxfce4 should be called without sudo inside the chroot, or with sudo outside (since it's a helper script that calls enter-chroot).

If the above doesn't resolve anything: what do you mean by "restored", and what command did you use to set up your chroot?

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On 24 January 2013 19:21, David Schneider [email protected] wrote:

startx doesn't work at all with the chroot; not entirely sure why. You
can use xinit if you want to manually set up your X11 session. startxfce4should be called without
sudo inside the chroot, or with sudo outside (since it's a helper script
that calls enter-chroot).

Yes tried all of these.......when i try to start the windowing, i find
myself back at the chromeos logging screen

If the above doesn't resolve anything: what do you mean by "restored",

Ah after i installed Chrubuntu and got frustrated with it I decided to wipe
my Chromebook (Samsung series 3 arm) via an Google restore disk for my
machine.

and what command did you use to set up your chroot?

I used the crouton script,on the homepage which i believe to be
http://goo.gl/fd3zc

(unless its changed in the last 24hours!)

Thanks

Great project by the way!

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The link doesn't change. Also, I meant what did you type into crosh to set up the chroot. Finally, what does it say under about:version?

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i just downloaded the crouton script at http://goo.gl/fd3zc then i ran it, then i typed sudo startxfte4

I dont see anywhere that says about version, is this once x has started?
I dont know where to look for version, just grepped the crouton scriipt and couldnt see version threre

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1. How did you run the crouton script? You typed in sudo sh -e crouton ....something. What was that "something"?
2. Open a new tab in Chromium OS, type in about:version and hit enter. Record what the first line says.

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sudo sh -e Downloads/crouton ..... i think

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Google Chrome 23.0.1271.111 (Official Build 175613)
Platform 2913.331.0 (Official Build) stable-channel daisy
WebKit 537.11 (@139057)
JavaScript V8 3.13.7.5
Flash 11.5.31.30
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS armv7l 2913.331.0) AppleWebKit/537.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/23.0.1271.111 Safari/537.11
Command Line /opt/google/chrome/chrome --apps-gallery-title=Web Store --apps-gallery-url=https://chrome.google.com/webstore/ --compress-sys-feedback --device-management-url=https://m.google.com/devicemanagement/data/api --disable-seccomp-sandbox --enable-accelerated-plugins --enable-gview --enable-logging --enable-mobile-dialog --enable-partial-swap --enable-smooth-scrolling --enable-sync-tabs --enable-sync-tabs-for-other-clients --enable-threaded-compositing --enable-ui-release-front-surface --enterprise-enrollment-initial-modulus=5 --enterprise-enrollment-modulus-limit=12 --force-compositing-mode --load-opencryptoki --log-level=1 --login-manager --login-profile=user --no-first-run --reload-killed-tabs --scroll-pixels=3 --ui-enable-partial-swap --ui-enable-per-tile-painting --ui-prioritize-in-gpu-process --use-cras --user-data-dir=/home/chronos --no-protector --enable-gpu-sandbox --allow-webui-compositing --use-gl=egl --disable-accelerated-2d-canvas --ppapi-flash-path=/opt/google/chrome/pepper/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=11.5.31.30 --ppapi-flash-args=enable_hw_video_decode=0,enable_stagevideo_auto=0,enable_trace_to_console=0 --vmodule=network_change_notifier*=1 --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end
Executable Path /opt/google/chrome/chrome
Profile Path /home/chronos/user
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i ran
sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -t xfce

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Run: delete-chroot precise to delete your chroot, then try sudo sh -e ~/Downloads/crouton -t xfce 2>&1 | tee ~/Downloads/crouton.log and if after that completes sudo startxfce4 doesn't work, paste the contents of the crouton.log file here.

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ive got a theory on what might be happening,,,,, chromeos screen dims during install and i usually have to log in again when i have finished the install , i think that chromeos removes the environment when im not logged in, e.g. most times when im not logged in I cant see my OWN downloads directory in dev shell.

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The log got cut off. Could you stick it on pastebin and link it here?
Crouton doesn't actually operate out of your user directory unless you force it to, so that's probably not the case.

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http://pastebin.com/S9M3TT61

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Looks fine to me. What does running sudo startxfce4 from crosh spit out?

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Nothing! It just flashes up, starting xserver then the screen goes black
for about 20 second s and then I'm back at the chromeos login screen
On Jan 28, 2013 2:00 AM, "David Schneider" [email protected] wrote:

Looks fine to me. What does running sudo startxfce4 from crosh spit out?

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sudo startxfce4 2>&1 | tee startxfce4.log and post the startxfce4.log file, please.

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powerd stop/waiting
/usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting X server

Xephyr cannot open host display. Is DISPLAY set?
XIO: fatal IO error 2 (No such file or directory) on X server ":0"
after 39 requests (39 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

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Weeiirrdd.
Are you running this from a guest session, or is there something else interesting about your accounts?

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Running from chronos account, i guess it's not acrouton problem, and
something weird about my machine, strange thing is, this is after a restore
using my google recovery disk!
On Jan 31, 2013 7:41 AM, "David Schneider" [email protected] wrote:

Weeiirrdd.
Are you running this from a guest session, or is there something else
interesting about your accounts?

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I mean the Google account(s) that you're logged into (or if you're in a guest session).

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Er, not that i know of, how could my google account affect this?
On Jan 31, 2013 7:48 AM, "David Schneider" [email protected] wrote:

I mean the Google account(s) that you're logged into (or if you're in a
guest session).

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If you're just logged in to a normal account, it should be fine. I'm out of ideas, sorry.

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It's fine, close the ticket,i don't think it's crouton related.thanks for
all of your time
On Jan 31, 2013 7:52 AM, "David Schneider" [email protected] wrote:

If you're just logged in to a normal account, it should be fine. I'm out
of ideas, sorry.

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Thanks for digging into it. Feel free to comment if you figure things out, or re-open if you dig some more and suspect it is related to crouton after all.

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As discovered in #18, if you've been using VT2 to launch the chroot, it won't work. Use crosh (Ctrl+Alt+T) instead.

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im sorry! i didnt even know that you could launch shell with ctrl+t!

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Not a problem! I've added it to the instructions now. I'm just glad it wasn't something device-dependent.

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hey guys sorry to add to thread new to playing with linux and new to chrome os was playing with ubuntu install had it running and was enjoying the fact that i got it to work but i loaded warzone 2100 and the samsung chromebook took a long time to load/ crashed so i restarted the device then when trying to get back in it gives me ---

Xephyr cannot open host display. Is DISPLAY set?
/usr/bin/xinit: giving up
/usr/bin/xinit: unable to connect to X server: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/xinit: server error
Unmounting /usr/local/chroots/precise...
chronos@localhost / $

can someone kinda give me an idiots def of whats going on havent been able to find intel relevent to what i am experiencing and dont understand the x11 server? xfce4 i believe

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then again i got so excited about reading this i just realize this post is years old

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hey mentalhavoc im having the same issue with my crouton arch, trying to find a solution atm ill keep you updated

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