Debian Bug report logs - #1120386
startx error on Trixie

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From: Kyrylo Orel <kyryloorel@gmail.com>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: startx error on Trixie

Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2025 15:52:12 +0000

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Package: general
Version: 13 (Trixie)
Severity: normal (with Debian knowledge)

Dear Debian devs,

I have spotted a bug in Trixie where you have a chance of booting into CLI
mode and typing in startx gives you an error of "No screens found!" even if
I have HDMI plugged in, and the bug is permanent so you're stuck in CLI
forever and this bug annoys me so much and other people too. Maybe it
thinks its in headless mode but it really isn't, and its related to Xorg. I
suggest you use this thing:

hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16

in /boot/config.txt.
Hope to get a Trixie update soon.

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Message #10 received at 1120386@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Jeremy Stanley <fungi@yuggoth.org>

To: 1120386@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#1120386: startx error on Trixie

Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:31:19 +0000

All my physical systems (half a dozen different devices) boot into a 
Linux virtual terminal from where I run `startx` after logging into 
a shell prompt. This works fine on all of them, including ones with 
fixed panels as well as those with monitors attached via DisplayPort 
or HDMI. I don't manually override detection, just rely on the 
default configs.

While I'm running sid instead of trixie everywhere, the versions of 
relevant packages now in trixie passed through sid and I never 
observed any problems with this configuration, so my guess is that 
there's something unusual about your specific hardware causing X not 
to see your monitor as connected for some reason. More detail would 
be helpful to track it down.

Message #15 received at 1120386@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

To: Kyrylo Orel <kyryloorel@gmail.com>, 1120386@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#1120386: startx error on Trixie

Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:17:36 +0100

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On Sat, 2025-11-08 at 15:52 +0000, Kyrylo Orel wrote:
> Package: general
> Version: 13 (Trixie)
> Severity: normal (with Debian knowledge)
> 
> Dear Debian devs,
> 
> I have spotted a bug in Trixie where you have a chance of booting into CLI mode and typing in startx gives you an error of "No screens found!" even if I have HDMI plugged in, and the bug is permanent so you're stuck in CLI forever and this bug annoys me so much and other people too. Maybe it thinks its in headless mode but it really isn't, and its related to Xorg. I suggest you use this thing: 
> 
> hdmi_force_hotplug=1
> hdmi_group=1
> hdmi_mode=16
> 
> in /boot/config.txt.

That config file is a Raspberry Pi thing, isn't it?  Where did you get
the Debian image you are using from?

Ben.

> Hope to get a Trixie update soon.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein

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