From: Alex Vestgaard <birkeroed@protonmail.ch>
To: 25865@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:27:15 -0500 [thread overview]
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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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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-24 18:27 Alex Vestgaard [this message]
2017-03-07 21:40 ` bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx Ludovic Courtès
2023-08-11 10:10 ` 宋文武 via Bug reports for GNU Guix
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