Hi. On Fri, 25 Aug 2017 06:15:09 -0700 Patrick Bartek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Have been testing Stretch with alternate inits -- sysvinit and runit to > be specific -- in Virtualbox on a Wheezy host while leaving systemd > files alone. Not even "pinning" them. Well decided to see what > removing them would do. I followed the "Variant" option instructions > on the Nosystemd site. > > http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Debian_Stretch > > No problems until I installed the VBoxGuestAddditions. Startx would > only work if run by root. Run by user got $DiISPLAY environment > error. Couldn't find screen. <skip> > Anyone got any ideas. Everything works fine if GuestAdditions not > installed. It's been awhile since I poked VirtualBox but I get that suspicion that Xorg module provided by VirtualBox needs root access to do its job. So, I'd start with installing 'xserver-xorg-legacy' package. Reco
