Thank you for the isssue related info. - Well, actually, the user login into tty and get to the console, so dash. He starts screen, then, it could be seen as the console or some extension. Well, issue is similar with dvtm. Pitty that it cannot work from bulk without x11 tweaking.
The use of startx from screen, I do not find it as unsecured, so that would not have done much damages. But - well, that how x11 works, nothing to do about it. This feature could have been very handy sometimes. You screen, startx, then logs the screen, and no wdm nor gdm required for workstations. Cheers On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the screen package: > > #584646: screen: impossible to startx -- :4 > > It has been closed by Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Axel Beckert < > a...@debian.org> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 584646: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=584646 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> > To: yellowprotoss <yellowprot...@gmail.com>, 584646-d...@bugs.debian.org > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 03:33:38 +0100 > Subject: Re: Bug#584646: screen: impossible to startx -- :4 > Hi, > > yellowprotoss wrote: > > Startx is not workign unfortunately from screen. > > > > debian$ startx -- :4 > > > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > > ^Cgiving up. > > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X > server > > xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 2. > > That's a very similar issue to http://bugs.debian.org/610839 and > http://bugs.debian.org/583644, just the other way round: > > Inside screen you are connected to a virtual terminal device > (/dev/pts/<somenumber>) while startx by default only works on virtual > console devices (/dev/tty<somenumber>). > > This is neither a bug nor related to screen but just a permission > configuration issue. Please use "dpkg-reconfigure x11-common" to > adjust who is allowed to start the X server. Default value is "Console > Users Only" (and inside screen you are no more a console user). > Setting it to "Anybody" should fix your problem. > > HTH. > > Regards, Axel > -- > ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ > : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin > `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE > `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: yellowprotoss <yellowprot...@gmail.com> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:24:07 +0200 > Subject: screen: impossible to startx -- :4 > Package: screen > Version: 4.0.3-14 > Severity: important > > Hello > > Startx is not workign unfortunately from screen. > > debian$ startx -- :4 > > X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting. > ^Cgiving up. > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server > xinit: No such process (errno 3): unexpected signal 2. > > > Here is the output from the command > > Best regards > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: squeeze/sid > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages screen depends on: > ii dpkg 1.15.7.2 Debian package management > system > ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation > in > ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared > lib > ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal > hand > ii libpam0g 1.1.1-3 Pluggable Authentication > Modules l > > screen recommends no packages. > > screen suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information > > > >
