bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx

bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx

[Alex Vestgaard]

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Hi,

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

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bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx

[Ludovic Courtès]

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’.

bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx

[宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

Alex Vestgaard <birkeroed@protonmail.ch> writes:

> Hi,
>
> 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

Hello, for 'xinit', you can create a '~/.xserverrc` file with:

  tty=$(tty)
  tty=${tty#/dev/tty}
  X vt${tty}

then it will run a non-root X from current tty.  Also 'sx' works fine.

Closing now..