I do use startx from a terminal login, so this sounds like it could be
the problem. I'll check it out when I get home, tonight and pass the
results to the list.
Thanks.
Marc
On 9/21/20 11:16 PM, wirelessduck--- via Dng wrote:
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
<https://files.devuan.org/devuan_beowulf/Release_notes.txt>
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Tom
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