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Aquous
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:10 pm    Post subject: X will not start when run as regular user Reply with quote

Hi,

This used to work, but now when I run startx as a user (xinit xterm -- :2) I get the strangest error message:
Code:
Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)

/dev/tty0 is, in fact, present, and udev and CONFIG_DEVTMPFS and whatnot are all working fine.

Previously it also complained about not being able to access its logfile, but I fixed that by chmodding /var/tmp to 777, which seems correct given that I need a process run as a regular user to be able to write to that directory.

The question: why is X trying to open /dev/tty0, and why is it failing when run as a regular user?
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Ant P.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

X is supposed to be run as setuid root - have you changed the file perms on it to not do that?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I thought this wasn't needed with KMS. But you're right, setting USE=suid fixed the problem, and it looks like USE=suid is required for most use cases after all: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450364

Thanks!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 5:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

chmod 777 = BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD!!!!!

(instead try to figure out what user owns or what group owns and run chown $USER /file... or chgrp $USERGROUP /file)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 7:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You're almost right, but not - /var/tmp should be chmod 1777.
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