Do you have an initramfs? On Wed, Mar 7, 2018, 6:52 AM Christoph Böhmwalder <christ...@boehmwalder.at> wrote:
> I think I broke something once again... > > Rebooting after a recent update caused my X Server to completely die. I > faintly remember some x11-related packages being blocked on that > particular update, but because I was short on time I decided just to > ignore those at the time (note to self: bad idea, apparently). > > Now when I run startx, it complains about a bunch of permissions being > borked: > > $ cat Xorg.0.log > ---- 8< ---- > [ 11.763] (--) using VT number 7 > > [ 11.763] (EE) > Fatal server error: > [ 11.766] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 > (Permission denied) > [ 11.767] (EE) > [ 11.768] (EE) > Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support > at http://wiki.x.org > for help. > [ 11.773] (EE) Please also check the log file at > "/home/christoph/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. > [ 11.774] (EE) > [ 11.775] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor > [ 11.775] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor > [ 11.775] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. > > (I'll attach the full log) > > I don't fully understand what's going on there, but I figured maybe > someone more experienced on here might have an idea as to what I did > wrong this time. > > > FWIW, I already tried setting the permissions of /dev/tty7 to 664, > causing the X server to work, albeit with inputs not working (the log > reveiled that it couldn't access /dev/input/event7 or something, so > probably the same issue). > > > My user's groups are: > > $ groups christoph > tty wheel audio video usb users input davfs2 plugdev christoph kvm > > (Note tty, audio, video, and input. That's all X should really need, > right?) > > My VIDEO_CARDS contains "intel i915" (for an Intel HD 4000(?) chip in a > Lenovo X1 Carbon 1st gen). > > > Has this broken for anyone else? Anyone who could point me in the right > direction? Thanks in advance! > > -- > Regards, > Christoph >
