On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 14:46:44 -0700, Scott Mcdermott wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-legacy > Version: 2:1.17.2-3 > Severity: grave > > I recently did an upgrade of X, which broke it on my machine. > Here are old (working) and new (broken) versions that apt-get > installed, as shown in /var/log/apt/history.log: > > xserver-xorg-core:amd64 (1.17.2-1.1, 1.17.2-3) > > This upgrade has broken X startup for me. Here is how > I start X (as ordinary user): > > exec setsid env -i \ > LOGNAME=$LOGNAME \ > USER=$USER \ > HOME=$HOME \ > PATH=$PATH \ > EDITOR=$EDITOR \ > DISPLAY=$DISPLAY \ > SHELL=$SHELL \ > TERM=$TERM \ > LANG=$LANG \ > X :0 vt63 \ > -dpi 106 \ > -nolisten tcp \ > -noreset \ > -keeptty \ > -novtswitch > So one solution is to install xserver-xorg-legacy and tell it to not drop privileges (needs_root_rights=yes). But that leaves X running as root, which we're trying to move away from.
The better solution is to change your setup to run X on the VT it's started from, inside a logind session, so it doesn't need extra privileges. Cheers, Julien
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