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mwillems:

--- Quote from: Wybe on January 13, 2018, 05:36:47 pm ---I did a clean install of Debian Stretch 9.3 and it appears that jriver.service does not start anymore. Any ideas?

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Did you enable it?  What does the journal tell you about jriver.service?

Wybe:
Some extra info: I did the same install like before (when it worked): installed only the Debian 9 base system plus Standard system uitlities and then I installed only gnome-session and some applications like gedit, sudo, abiword, gnome-disk-utility etc.. Now at Debian 9.3, when I start jriver.service and I ask for the status, it returns with: no protocol specified and unable to open the X display device:0. I know that device:0 is correct. Some problem with permissions/authority?

Update: the output of: echo $DISPLAY = :0

mwillems:
What happens if you start JRiver manually using the normal command-line invocation?

How about if you try to start the service manually from inside gnome using systemctl start jriver.service?  How about systemctl restart jriver.service?

You don't mention whether or not you installed or enabled a display manager; if you did not do so, that is almost certainly the problem; how are you starting gnome-session and/or xorg?  Piecemealing a desktop environment in debian (as opposed to using tasksel or the installer) can lead to many surprises as many components are pre-configured to rely on other components that they expect to be installed; the fact that it worked once is no guarantee it will work again. 

This sounds like either a display manager issue or an xsession permissions issue, but we'll get to the bottom of it.

Wybe:
I did a clean install again and now it works. Not sure what went wrong. When the problem occured I was able to start mediacenter 23 /mediaserver from the command-line. If I'm not mistaken, gnome-session comes with gdm3. Thanks for your willingness to help. Much appreciated!

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