> On 22 Sep 2020, at 12:36, Marc Shapiro via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote:
>
> I have pretty much decided that there is no way to upgrade my Debian system
> to Buster and keep it usable without systemd. Since I am set up for
> multiboot, including Devuan Ascii, I decided to upgrade that to Beowulf and
> see if that will work for me and the others using this box.
>
> After upgrading (following the instructions for upgrading an existing Devuan
> system), I rebooted the computer.
>
> First, I booted into my Debian Stretch partition to make sure that everything
> was still good, there. Boot, login, start Xorg. All looks good.
>
> Logout and reboot into Beowulf.
>
> Boot and login went fine. Starting Xorg, not so well. Tried all three users
> with no luck. This worked before the upgrade. Tried as root. Success! So
> root can start Xorg, but not an ordinary user. Any ideas what might be
> wrong. It looks like a permissions issue, but I don't know enough about how
> X actually starts up to know where to look. Anything that you want me to
> post to help debug this?
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
>
> Marc
If you are starting X from a terminal/tty, the Beowulf release notes mention
the required configuration to start X as non-root.
https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/Release_notes.txt
—
Tom
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