On 2018-11-03 14:01, Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > HEADS UP!!! > > If you start your X server from the command line with, e.g. startx, you > now need to set the new(?) suid USE flag for the xorg-server package. > > This flag causes the binary to be installed with the setuid file flag, > which causes it to run as root. > > The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version > number from 1.20.3 when making this change, and also didn't notify users > by a NEWS item, that I can see. > > The matter was fairly intensively discussed in bug #669648 in Gentoo's > bugzilla. > > So - if you get a permissions error whilst trying to start X, setting > the suid USE flag may well be the solution. > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
I got the same problem yesterday. My setup was startx + StumpWM. I got "setblabla error: cannot open /dev/tty0 (permission denied)". A possible solution without changing anything unnecessary is to run startx as "startx -- vt1". No need to change permission/ownership of anything. It is just required that the user is in "video" group. No "tty" or "input" needed. I presume it is because your user does not have access to TTY other than its login TTY. So if you log in by "tty1", just start X in "vt1". Hope that helps somehow. Danny
