On Wed, 07 Mar 2018 15:52:24 +0100 Christoph Böhmwalder <christ...@boehmwalder.at> wrote:
I think I broke something once again...Rebooting after a recent update caused my X Server to completely die. I faintly remember some x11-related packages being blocked on that particular update, but because I was short on time I decided just to ignore those at the time (note to self: bad idea, apparently). Now when I run startx, it complains about a bunch of permissions being borked: $ cat Xorg.0.log ---- 8< ---- [ 11.763] (--) using VT number 7 [ 11.763] (EE) Fatal server error: [ 11.766] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied) [ 11.767] (EE) [ 11.768] (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 11.773] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/christoph/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 11.774] (EE) [ 11.775] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor [ 11.775] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file descriptor [ 11.775] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. (I'll attach the full log) I don't fully understand what's going on there, but I figured maybe someone more experienced on here might have an idea as to what I did wrong this time. FWIW, I already tried setting the permissions of /dev/tty7 to 664, causing the X server to work, albeit with inputs not working (the log reveiled that it couldn't access /dev/input/event7 or something, so probably the same issue). My user's groups are: $ groups christoph tty wheel audio video usb users input davfs2 plugdev christoph kvm (Note tty, audio, video, and input. That's all X should really need, right?) My VIDEO_CARDS contains "intel i915" (for an Intel HD 4000(?) chip in a Lenovo X1 Carbon 1st gen). Has this broken for anyone else? Anyone who could point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance!
I got the same (again) but x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.99.901 runs just fine here when, and only when, I re-implement the +suid USE-flag (--enable-install-setuid) and remove --enable-suid-wrapper from the ebuild.
Remove your user from tty group and you’ll probably get: “parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied)” that is discussed at [1]. So downgrading to: x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.5-r1[+suid] may be a quick but cannot be a permanent solution in my opinion. References: - [1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635102> -- Regards, floyd
