* bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx
@ 2017-02-24 18:27 Alex Vestgaard
2017-03-07 21:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-11 10:10 ` 宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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From: Alex Vestgaard @ 2017-02-24 18:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 25865
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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
2017-02-24 18:27 bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx Alex Vestgaard
@ 2017-03-07 21:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-11 10:10 ` 宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ludovic Courtès @ 2017-03-07 21:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alex Vestgaard; +Cc: 25865
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’.
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* bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx
2017-02-24 18:27 bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx Alex Vestgaard
2017-03-07 21:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
@ 2023-08-11 10:10 ` 宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix
1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: 宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix @ 2023-08-11 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alex Vestgaard; +Cc: 25865-done
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..
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