cleaning sources and repository lists

[Jonners59]

Thought you had to go away... I was about to hit the sack. It's quite late here and I have to copy all the info off the screen and type on to this one. Not fun

1st cmd =
No LSB modules are available
Distributor ID = Ubuntu
Description = Ubuntu 14:10
Release = 14:10
Codename = utopic

echo $DESKTOP_SESSION

= blank line/nothing at all

ls /usr/share/xsessions

gnome.desktop gnome-fallback.desktop gnome-flashback-compiz.desktop Lubuntu-desktop Lubuntu-Netbook.desktop openbox.desktop ubuntu.desktop xfce.desktop

echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP

= also a blank/nothing at all line

[Jonners59]

Bashin-om
I need to hit the sack. Can you, please leave me any cmds (home work) I need to do and I'll try and get to the PC before any of the boys get to the Tv (The monitor for this PC) first thing, or evening.....

Good night

Jonners

[Bashing-om]

Jonners59; yikes

with all these :

gnome.desktop gnome-fallback.desktop gnome-flashback-compiz.desktop Lubuntu-desktop Lubuntu-Netbook.desktop openbox.desktop ubuntu.desktop xfce.desktop

and no DE loaded, we are going to have to tell the system what to load ..

Which is the DeskTop you prefer ? - I do not see unity (lightdm) in any of that bunch , hummm -> maybe falls under "ubuntu.desktop" ?

Consider perhaps getting unity as the default DE ?

which way did he go, George

[Jonners59]

Xfce.desktop these all loaded as patt of the cd I used. Was good, it slloeed me to play with them side by a ide. I now/did have it set up to load xfce automatically.

Unity, probably is...

dso what next, Bashing-om...?

[Bashing-om]

Jonners59; Welp;

Let's see what results, and what errors are generated by the system when we start xfce from the terminal.

Boot to terminal and issue terminal command:

startxfce4

Maybe it is but the Display Manager not knowing what to do.
I too am getting into a learning mode here; how to find what/where for a Display Manager .

slowly, step by step

[Jonners59]

Thanks Bashing-om
Tried it and it says...

/usr/bin/startxfce4: Starting x server
(EE)
Fatal server error:
(EE) Server is already active for display 0
IF THE SERVER IS NOLONGER RUNNING REMOVE /tmp/.XO-lock and start again
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the x-foundation support... blah, blah, blah...
(EE)
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyxinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Resource temporarily unavailable
xinit: server error

So something must be wrong - again with x-org.conf??????

What next?

[Bashing-om]

Jonners59; Well;

At least it is something ...

What about that advisory for " /tmp/.XO-lock " ; does the file exist ?

ls -al /tmp/.XO-lock

progress made, slowly

[Jonners59]

Jonners59; Well;

At least it is something ...

What about that advisory for " /tmp/.XO-lock " ; does the file exist ?

ls -al /tmp/.XO-lock

progress made, slowly

Con not access /tmp/.XO-lock, no such file or directory... Getting somewhere, yes?

[Bashing-om]

Jonners59; Ummphh !

Not what I had anticipated.
OK, even though that file does not exist then. now try:

sudo rm /tmp/.XO-lock
sudo rm ~/.Xauthotity

Reboot and see if/what starts for the desktop.

Else next we stop the DMs and try then to start xfce.

where there is a will there is a way

[Jonners59]

Sorry, no change....