On 06/02/13 14:40, Gary Thomas wrote: > In my attempt to get pulseaudio running, I need to bring up > my X11 session with a user that is not root. The default > (core-image-sato) always starts X11 as root. This yields > these errors when starting (with pulseaudio installed): > W: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root > (unless --system is specified). > E: [autospawn] core-util.c: Home directory /home/root not ours. > W: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock. > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to acquire autospawn lock > W: [pulseaudio] main.c: This program is not intended to be run as root > (unless --system is specified). > E: [autospawn] core-util.c: Home directory /home/root not ours. > W: [autospawn] lock-autospawn.c: Cannot access autospawn lock. > E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to acquire autospawn lock > > So, I tried to make X run as user 'demo', which I created, by > putting 'demo' in /etc/X11/Xusername. Now it seems to try > and run as 'demo', but falls over quite quickly: > Fatal server error: > [2951371.651] xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or > directory) > [2951371.651] > [2951371.651] (EE) > Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support > at http://wiki.x.org for help. > [2951371.651] (EE) Please also check the log file at > "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. > [2951371.651] (EE) > [2951371.652] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: KDSETMODE failed: Bad file > descriptor > [2951371.652] (WW) xf86CloseConsole: VT_GETMODE failed: Bad file > descriptor > [2951371.652] Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. > > Any ideas how I get this going? > > n.b. not only do I want to get this going for myself, but I think > the discussion (and maybe subsequent documentation) is useful since > this functionality is in OE-core (or is it only Poky/Yocto - hard > to tell)...
The user that the rootless X in Poky is expecting is called xuser; if you use your own, you need to make sure that it's in all the appropriate groups the server needs it to be in, etc.; see the xserver-nodm-init recipe. Tomas -- http://sleepfive.com _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
