cant use startx while in non root user.

Anon240240 · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2021 Posts: 5

hi whenever i try to use startx when not in a root user it says that the server shut down unexpectadly. i created the user by doing user add -m username then usermod -a -G wheel users exampleusername. Is there something i messed up? if there are any files i need to paste please tell me. Thanks for any help.

Anon240240 · n00b Joined: 12 Jan 2021 Posts: 5

i forgot to add something

xauth: file /home/anon/.Xauthoritf does not exist

shows up

The Doctor · Moderator Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 2678

Make sure that ~/.xinitrc either doesn't exist or specifies a window manager to run. You probably need to read this page.

You probably want to add your user to a few more groups like video and audio although I doubt that is the problem.

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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21602

Did you install Xorg server non-suid? If unsure, the answer is available from emerge --pretend --verbose x11-base/xorg-server. Are you using elogind? If yes, is elogind correctly configured? Please post the full output of the Xorg server log.

xylophone · n00b Joined: 25 Oct 2020 Posts: 5

A recent emerge update seemingly changed my system to use elogind and caused permission errors with startx (unable to open /dev/tty0). Xorg ran with sudo and as root, but loginctl user-status returned no output.

I think I fixed it with rc-update add elogind boot, and a reboot.

Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2716

USE="suid elogind" and USE="suid -elogind" have different meanings, the former installs a suid wrapper rather than make Xorg itself suid.

I don't use either, but the former likely requires elogind and/or system dbus already running to work, so yeah. In case of display managers, xdm script depends on dbus which in turn will start elogind without being in runlevels.