Module fbcon not found, only root can start X. [SOLVED]

[scottro]

Sigh, one more improvement to break things.

Did my usual install, minimal, afterwards add X and fluxbox.

Startx
Fatal module fbcon not found.

Disable selinux as some cursory googling indicates it's a permissions issue.

Nope.

startx as root. No problem.



Probably doesn't happen with default installs or booting into runlevel 5 as I've seen no other mention of it---nor has it happened on about 6 other installs on this laptop. This is the first install direct from a beta, the others were from alpha.

As far as I know, this is the way I always install. I start with a minimal installation, unchecking everything. Then I do yum install @base-x fluxbox.

Works as root, though, so it's apparently some sort of permissions issue. I'll have to delve more deeply into it at some point, but not tonight.

[scottro]

A little more googling indicates it's happening to folks with Intel cards. (This is an Asus 1000HE netbook, with an Intel card.) The ArchLinux people are mentioning it quite a bit, possibly because Arch users are more likely to boot into textmode and later run startx. None of the things I came across, however, mentioned it only happening to non-root users.

[scottro]

After trying this, that, and the other, it turned out to only occur with fluxbox. I removed my $HOME/.fluxbox and everything was fine afterwards. That is, I once again typed .startx, it recreated a $HOME/.fluxbox directory and everything worked.