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