[SOLVED] Non-root Xorg: Input is frozen

[Punchcutter]

Hi... I've got Yet Another Non-root Xorg Problem. I've already done a bunch of googling but cannot solve the problem. I've got what I think is latest xorg, 1.20.8-r1. I have re-emerged this and xf86-input-evdev a few times. Kernel is 4.9.228. I've seen in other threads that this may be related to elogind. I don't have a clear memory of what I've done in the past, but I have USE flags elogind and -consolekit in my make.conf, and I have maybe(?) done an emerge world since then. (Incidentally I have been trying to do emerge world for a couple months but am running into major conflicts that I can't seem to get around, and I'll need to ask for help with that later, but for now, please don't tell me to do emerge world to solve the present problem )

First, if I run Xorg as root, everything is fine. So clearly the problem here is permissions.

I first had trouble even getting Xorg server up when run as user, but then took a hint from some other forum posts about changing the ownership of /dev/tty0, tty1, tty7, etc to my user, instead of root (it's a single-user laptop). I've done that, in fact I changed all of /dev/tty? to owned by my user, for good measure, and set perms to 660.

Xorg server starts up now, but.... all input is frozen/hosed (kbd + mouse). Even CAPS LOCK won't light up.

Other threads say "set /usr/bin/xinit to suid". I tried that. It didn't solve the problem (I reverted it).

Here's the one diagnostic that comes out in the server log output that seems relevant:

[Anon-E-moose]

It's not xinit that needs to be suid but Xorg.


The message is about input (IINM)

how are you starting the whole x process, startx, display manager, etc?

Edit to add: since you mention elogind have you read the latest https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Non_root_Xorg
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[Punchcutter]

Anon-E-moose, thanks for the reply. To cut to the chase, it's embarrassing to say that I had in fact seen the wiki page that you linked, but for some reason didn't pay attention to all the details, I guess because I had my head buried in a particular idea of tracking down the exact errors I was seeing. Also I must have assumed that dbus was running, because as far as I knew, it was. However the root cause of my problem turned out to be that, in fact, dbus wasn't running. Not just crashed or something, but not even started by rc-update at boot time! I can't imagine how I survived my last reboot, a few weeks ago, if that was the case Or maybe something spurious happened since that time to remove dbus from the rc-update settings.

Fwiw, it all works even though neither my xinit nor Xorg executables are suid, and I didn't need to mess with /dev/tty? permissions.

And now... off to another forum, to get help with my emerge world problem