From: "Hervé Guillemet" <hg@apteryx.fr>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X.
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 01:20:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <127c5862-bcca-f6da-cf27-9dcf3d3a6152@apteryx.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r2fxv8p0.fsf@work.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me>
Le 07/11/2018 à 04:59, YUE Daian a écrit :
>
> 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.
Thanks for this tip. This worked for me but adding the user to "input"
group was also necessary.
--
Hervé
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-09 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-03 14:01 [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-03 14:46 ` Rich Freeman
2018-11-03 23:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-11-04 18:39 ` Alarig Le Lay
2018-11-04 1:11 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2018-11-04 10:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-11-04 16:04 ` Daniel Frey
2018-11-05 15:30 ` Grant Edwards
2018-11-05 16:27 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-11-05 16:35 ` Rich Freeman
2018-11-05 16:43 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2018-11-04 6:20 ` [gentoo-user] " Daniel Frey
2018-11-04 18:33 ` tuxic
2018-11-04 19:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-11-05 4:06 ` tuxic
2018-11-05 8:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2018-11-04 20:02 ` Daniel Frey
2018-11-05 15:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2018-11-07 3:59 ` [gentoo-user] " YUE Daian
2018-11-09 0:20 ` Hervé Guillemet [this message]
2018-11-09 8:49 ` gevisz
2018-11-09 9:19 ` YUE Daian
2018-11-09 10:24 ` Hervé Guillemet
2018-11-08 20:47 ` gevisz
2018-11-08 21:23 ` gevisz
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