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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Alex Vestgaard <birkeroed@protonmail.ch>
Cc: 25865@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 22:40:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o9xcrcit.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bPxWsXKl30lIGkz7qROAZ5Jp5oDKVWHsoYvrAm1HWzwUu7nvmTur0yhIKawRZJVqXlxh2e0QRvY8aDsvF1joNOrc3GSmaEWh0gvTue3JwKY=@protonmail.ch> (Alex Vestgaard's message of "Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:27:15 -0500")

Hello,

Alex Vestgaard <birkeroed@protonmail.ch> skribis:

> xinit suffers from an upstream bug, which does not allow non-root X to be run without a display manager via startx or xinitrc. Several people have reported this on #guix.
>
> Currently if one runs startx as non-root, X reports:
> (EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied)
>
> This bug is further discussed in [1]. Redhat seems to have a patch [2], but it is unclear to me whether this has been applied upstream.
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xinit/+bug/1562219
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203780

Did you have a change to try Red Hat’s patch?  It could be a good
starting point.

Thanks for your report,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-07 21:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-24 18:27 bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx Alex Vestgaard
2017-03-07 21:40 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2023-08-11 10:10 ` 宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix

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