I've tried for an hour, but can't seem to get any fix working. Highly
frustrating as I just switched my laptop from Debian to Ubuntu, and now
I have to spend time switching it back again.
Comment #16 seems to misunderstand the bug. Likewise the workaround in
comment #12 might possibly work for som
try sudo stratx
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The workaround is not working :( -
$ sudo setfacl -m u:kodi:rw /dev/tty0 /dev/tty7
setfacl: Option -m: Invalid argument near character 3
$ sudo chmod 0660 /dev/tty*
$
$ startx
...
Fatal server error:
(EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory)
...
Any ideas?
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I don't know if it is real workaround but if you want to avoid running X
as root you can
1. Go to one of tty1-tty6 and login as a normal user
2. run the server in the same tty you logged in, e.g. for tty6:
xinit /usr/bin/openbox -- :1 vt6
Tested on ubuntu mate 16.04.
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another workaround:
setfacl -m u:kodi:rw /dev/tty0 /dev/tty7
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I found a simple solution for this issue. Start x server as root and
then start windows manager as regular user.
1. sudo Xorg &
2. export DISPLAY=:0.0
3. bash .xinitrc
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Never mind: if I am reading correctly it seems those commits I mentioned
in #10 are already included upstream and in Ubuntu as well.
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Two relevant-looking Fedora patches which I haven't tried yet:
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-server.git/commit/?h=f22&id=943ff7334233f04fc2311945822cac537673a493
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/xorg-x11-server.git/commit/?h=f22&id=9d0fee062d4fbc0bee08db4fb8461c3d7f9ee0f
None of workarounds worked for me.
Omg, is there a single thing which 14.04 → 16.04 upgrade didn't break?
Sad to see that distro widely recommended for newbies slowly drowns
under a bunch of architectural, planning, and software problems, which
are hard to fight even for long time users. Perhaps s
Hi again.
Seems that my case is connected to my NVIDIA card and this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1525735
The following solved my problem:
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-legacy
In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config I replaced
allowed_users=console
with
allowed_users=
I am affected by the same bug, although the X error message is slightly
different ("parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0" instead of
"xf86OpenConsole: " ...)
In /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config I have tried to replaced
allowed_users=console
with
allowed_users=anybody
and in this file I also tried
** Changed in: xinit (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => High
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There is a workaround. See:
http://kodi.wiki/view/HOW-TO:Autostart_Kodi_for_Linux
Specifically:
5 Add a new systemd script
And everything under it.
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I'm having the same problem. Is their any fix yet available ?
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«sudo chmod 0660 /dev/tty*» worked for me until reboot. Changing
permission in udev rules for tty to 0660 from 0620 could be a temporary
fix.
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: xinit (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Any update on this?
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