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)?
[...] > >> 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 "$@"