Bug 670200

Summary:	xorg-server / startx permission errors
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	brho
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description brho 2018-11-03 13:42:36 UTC

After a recent upgrade, startx failed.  The root cause appears to be permissions.

I'm running:
- x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.3
- x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-410.73

The first problem was due to not being in the tty group.  I don't have the error message anymore, but it was something related to permissions and tty.  I added myself to the tty group.  That was probably just a bad groups setting for me.


The next problem was:

[   763.417] (EE) Fatal server error:
[   763.418] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied)
[   763.418] (EE) 
[   763.419] (EE) 

That was because /dev/tty7 wasn't readable: crw--w---- 1 root tty.  I chmodded that g+r.  I added a local udev rule, but are those TTYs supposed to be rw?


The final problem was that various input devices were unusable.  I needed to add myself to the input group.


Anyway, the groups stuff sounds like an old installation issue, but the tty permissions/udev rule might need looked at.

Comment 1 Andreas Sturmlechner gentoo-dev

2018-11-03 16:26:55 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 669648 ***