Comment 17 for bug 1433329

(In reply to Andrew Travneff from comment #13)
> 1:
> { tty
> PS_FORMAT=comm,args ps -e | grep /X
> ll /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
> cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
> grep EE ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
> startx -- -verbose 7 -logverbose 7
> grep EE ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
> } &> /tmp/xout.txt

Hmm, that is likely confusing Xorg because you're decoupling its stdin & stdout from the tty it is running from, can you try doing a simple:

"startx"

Without any input / output redirection directly from a login on tty1 ?