On Fri 30 Oct 2015 at 15:46:47 +0100, Flo wrote:

> On 10/30/2015 02:33 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 01:57:41PM +0100, Flo wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> > 
> >> I upgraded my Debian testing system.
> > 
> >> The keyboard is working at the console. But when I enter startx and X is
> >> running neither the keyboard nor the mouse works.
> > 
> > Hm. Are they USB devices? If yes: what happens when you unplug and re-plug
> > them (while X is up, as non-root user)?

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> >> The Xorg.0.log is only updated when I run X as root.

Very strange. Did you look in ~/.local?

> > Sysvinit or systemd? As which user is X running?
> > 
> > (under systemd it reportedly doesn't run as root, under sysvinit it has
> > to).
> 
> The process with PID 1 is called init, therefore, I think I am still
> using sysvinit. I thought there was already a migration to systemd but
> appearently it wasn't.

What does 'cat /proc/1/comm' give you? (Not that systemd is necessarily
the culprit).
 
> User: I log in at the console as regular user. And this regular user
> invokes 'startx'.
> 
> $ ps auxw | grep Xorg
> username       8566  0.0  0.3 245992 25544 tty1     Sl   15:19   0:00
> /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -nolisten tcp :0 vt1 -keeptty -auth
> /tmp/serverauth.Gi5TPbXzpf

On two systems here 'ls /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg' gives

  ls: cannot access /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg: No such file or directory

'cat /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc' shows the command to start X as

  exec /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp "$@"

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