On 10/30/15 17:19, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 30 Oct 2015 at 15:46:47 +0100, Flo wrote:
> 
>> On 10/30/2015 02:33 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 01:57:41PM +0100, Flo wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>> I upgraded my Debian testing system.
>>>
>>>> The keyboard is working at the console. But when I enter startx and X is
>>>> running neither the keyboard nor the mouse works.
>>>
>>> Hm. Are they USB devices? If yes: what happens when you unplug and re-plug
>>> them (while X is up, as non-root user)?
> 
> [...]
>  
>>>> The Xorg.0.log is only updated when I run X as root.
> 
> Very strange. Did you look in ~/.local?
> 

No, I wasn't aware that there are log files, too. I will consider that
next time.

>>> Sysvinit or systemd? As which user is X running?
>>>
>>> (under systemd it reportedly doesn't run as root, under sysvinit it has
>>> to).
>>
>> The process with PID 1 is called init, therefore, I think I am still
>> using sysvinit. I thought there was already a migration to systemd but
>> appearently it wasn't.
> 
> What does 'cat /proc/1/comm' give you? (Not that systemd is necessarily
> the culprit).
>  

init

>> User: I log in at the console as regular user. And this regular user
>> invokes 'startx'.
>>
>> $ ps auxw | grep Xorg
>> username       8566  0.0  0.3 245992 25544 tty1     Sl   15:19   0:00
>> /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -nolisten tcp :0 vt1 -keeptty -auth
>> /tmp/serverauth.Gi5TPbXzpf
> 
> On two systems here 'ls /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg' gives
> 
>   ls: cannot access /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg: No such file or directory
> 
> 'cat /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc' shows the command to start X as
> 
>   exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@"
> 
> 

Same at my system.

Thanks,
Flo.

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