hi

in playing around with your xorg or windowmanger or desktop environment you may find X does not start properly and running startx says X is already up

Here is one way using smxi to fix it

1) open a new console ....say ....Control + Alt + F2 keys
login as root if allowed otherwise login as local user and su to root
issue command


will terninate X

2) In another console

login as local user

delete current bad file that has a MIT cookie set



should get X back up

3) if that is failing for you try going back to original root console window and restarting your login manager if you use one

eg

/etc/init.d/gdm3 restart

(replace gdm3 with kdm or slim etc)

good luck

PS You don't need to open 2 consoles you could run su (localusername) or su to swap between non-root and root
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