Todd Smith Org

I kept getting the error message:

(EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/X11/share/X11/xkb/rules/base

Even commenting out everything in .xinitrc wouldn't help:
tsmith@tightanime:~$ cat .xinitrc 
# start the  quartz-wm with copy-paste functionnality

#quartz-wm --only-proxy &
  
#exec your wm
#exec wmaker

tsmith@tightanime:~$ rm .xinitrc

I had to delete the file, and then X11 started up just fine.