Bug 1121732

Summary:	There is no link /var/lib/X11/X to the correct X server binary
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Distribution	Reporter:	Felix Miata <mrmazda>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NORESPONSE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Leap 15.1
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Felix Miata 2019-01-13 21:04:53 UTC

Initial summary: There is no link /var/lib/X11/X to the correct X server binary.

To reproduce:
1-online upgrade (zypper dup) from 15.0 to 15.1alpha
2-boot multi-user.target
3-login on any vtty
4-startx

Actual observations:
1-error message: "There is no link /var/lib/X11/X to the correct X server binary."
2-/var/lib/X11/X does not exist
3-/var/lib/X11/ does not exist
4-Xorg session does not start

Expected behavior
1-Xorg starts normally

Comments/Questions:
1-graphical.target works as expected
2-startx works as expected following manual creation of symlink /var/lib/X11/X 
3-startx continues to work as always in Debian Buster & Fedora Rawhide, apparently still "supported" and extensively used. Isn't it a standard component of upstream Xorg?
4-Why does startx want /var/lib/X11/X (which exists on neither Buster nor Rawhide) rather than existing /usr/bin/X or /usr/bin/X11/X?

Comment 1 Felix Miata 2019-01-13 21:19:29 UTC

This apparently resulted by horrific latency between here and B.O.O. I only clicked submit once, then was made to wait several minutes before seeing a red screen result, on which I clicked "do anyway" in order to prevent all my work being lost by instead using the back button.