"Waiting for X server to begin accepting connections" infinite loop

Question

I installed an Archlinux distribution, and I am trying to install xOrg. I installed xorg-server xorg-xinit and xorg-server-utils. I also installed xf86-video-nouveau because I have a 960M from Nvidia.

To test it :

echo "xterm && sleep 10" > .xinitrc 

And I run startx. I got this message

Waiting for X server to begin accepting connections

And after 2-3 minutes, I got :

Unable to connect to X server: connection refused.

Why the connection is refused ?

Thanks for help !

Egad

Are ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession executable (they should be)? That would look like the kind of issue you may be facing. – Triclinium

Answer 1

I never answered. But I finally managed to get it working.

I was able to run it by blacklisting nouveau drivers.

To test, at grub boot, press e on the line of your linux distribution.

You should see something like:

linux   /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-33-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=32290445-e978-4a43-b6d9-27f9e943b3a6 ro  quiet nouveau.modeset=0 splash $vt_handoff

Just add nouveau.modeset=0 between quietand splash (pretty sure it's the same as if you write it down at the end of the line but I am 100% sure it's working the way I did).

Press F10 to boot with this configuration. It should work.

Hope it helps.

Egad

As obscure as this question may seem, I was also facing the same problem and this solved it. Thanks! – Immethodical