Impossible to use startx

Fulgurance · Veteran Joined: 15 Feb 2017 Posts: 1234

Hello, when I start startx, I have this strange error ...

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fedeliallalinea · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:09 pm Post subject:

Can help this?
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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2018 4:33 pm Post subject:

Easy way is to do "chmod 4711 /usr/bin/Xorg" as root and add suid flag to package.use for xorg-server

Note: The chmod does what the suid flag does when xorg-server is emerged.

OR if you really want to try your hand at non-suid X and you're not running the xorg modesetting driver then https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg
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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

Would be enough to setgid tty on /usr/bin/Xorg and have the user in the input/video groups, would it not?

Krogan86 · n00b Joined: 08 Nov 2018 Posts: 1

I had the same problem.
I installed lightdm instead and it worked.

Anon-E-moose · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2018 6:27 pm Post subject:

If you use a DM (lightd, gdm etc), instead of startx then yes it should work.
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Chiitoo · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2018 3:33 pm Post subject:

Moved from Desktop Environments to Duplicate Threads in favour of startx fails with xorg-server 1.20.
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