Bug#801605: xserver-xorg: X fails to start as normal user
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 05:17:29PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:24:22 -0300, Ricardo Peliquero wrote:
>
> > Package: xserver-xorg
> > Version: 1:7.7+12
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > I have updated xserver-xorg from 1:7.7+9 to 1:7.7+12. After that, startx does not work as normal user.
> >
> > ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log says '(EE) AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0'
> >
> > X server starts when loging in as root. Then it is possible to execute 'DISPLAY=:0 x-window-manager' as normal user and have an operating X environment in tty7.
> >
> > 'ngetty' is used as login session daemon and 'sysvinit-core' as boot manager.
> >
> > If I downgrade xserver-xorg, I can startx normally.
> >
> Whatever spawns Xorg needs to make it start on the current VT, and
> logind needs to be running and working. That may or may not involve
> using systemd as init.
Thank you for your kind reply (FYI, it went to the Spam folder in Gmail :-(, so I am writing from another account).
If I executed 'startx' as root, Xorg started on current VT; but, if I executed it as normal user, it didn't work, as I previously said.
I had to install libpam-systemd and systemd-shim to solve the problem. Should this package be recommended by xorg or xinit?
Cheers,
Zhana
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