Actually, it says that it cannot connect to the Wicd daemon, or something to that effect.
Sorry, Marc On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 9:52 PM Marc Shapiro <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, that solved the issue. I installed elogind and libpam-elogind, > rebooted and X now starts up for all three users. > > There is only one issue. For only ONE of the three users, after X starts, > my dughter's login gets a popup that says the Wicd client cannot be > started, make sure the user is in the netdev group. Well, she wasn't in > the netdev group, so I logged her out, added her to the group, logged her > back in and verified that she was in netdev, then ran startx. I am still > getting the same error. Is there something else that is required for the > Wicd client? > > Marc > > > On 9/22/20 7:43 AM, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I do use startx from a terminal login, so this sounds like it could be the > problem. I'll check it out when I get home, tonight and pass the results > to the list. > > Thanks. > > Marc > > > > On 9/21/20 11:16 PM, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote: > > > > On 22 Sep 2020, at 12:36, Marc Shapiro via Dng <[email protected]> > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have pretty much decided that there is no way to upgrade my Debian > system to Buster and keep it usable without systemd. Since I am set up for > multiboot, including Devuan Ascii, I decided to upgrade that to Beowulf and > see if that will work for me and the others using this box. > > After upgrading (following the instructions for upgrading an existing > Devuan system), I rebooted the computer. > > First, I booted into my Debian Stretch partition to make sure that > everything was still good, there. Boot, login, start Xorg. All looks good. > > Logout and reboot into Beowulf. > > Boot and login went fine. Starting Xorg, not so well. Tried all three > users with no luck. This worked before the upgrade. Tried as root. > Success! So root can start Xorg, but not an ordinary user. Any ideas what > might be wrong. It looks like a permissions issue, but I don't know enough > about how X actually starts up to know where to look. Anything that you > want me to post to help debug this? > > Any help appreciated. > > > Marc > > > If you are starting X from a terminal/tty, the Beowulf release notes > mention the required configuration to start X as non-root. > > https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/Release_notes.txt > > — > Tom > > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing > [email protected]https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > >
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