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bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Mar 2017 22:40:42 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hello,
Alex Vestgaard <address@hidden> 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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