Running fbi from VT2, as root, kills an X session running as normal user on VT6.
2017-04-17 09:27:10.761056500 (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812072500 (II) AIGLX: Resuming AIGLX clients after VT switch 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812074500 (EE) modeset(0): drmSetMaster failed: Invalid argument 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812076500 (EE) modeset(0): failed to set mode: Permission denied 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812077500 (EE) 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812078500 Fatal server error: 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812079500 (EE) EnterVT failed for screen 0 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812080500 (EE) 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812080500 (EE) 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812081500 Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812094500 at http://wiki.x.org 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812095500 for help. 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812096500 (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.6.log" for additional information. 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812098500 (EE) 2017-04-17 09:27:30.812098500 (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch 2017-04-17 09:27:30.828880500 (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. 2017-04-17 09:27:30.831855500 XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":6"^M 2017-04-17 09:27:30.831856500 after 5279 requests (5279 known processed) with 0 events remaining.^M 2017-04-17 09:27:30.832000500 xterm: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) or KillClient on X server ":6"^M 2017-04-17 09:27:30.832024500 /usr/bin/xinit: connection to X server lost 2017-04-17 09:27:30.832024500 ^M 2017-04-17 09:27:30.832024500 waiting for X server to shut down $ eix fbi (...) [I] media-gfx/fbida Available versions: 2.12 ~2.13-r1 **9999 {X curl fbcon ghostscript +gif lirc +png scanner +tiff +webp} Installed versions: 2.12(09:27:05 AM 04/17/2017)(fbcon ghostscript gif png tiff webp -X -curl -lirc -scanner) Homepage: http://www.kraxel.org/blog/linux/fbida/ Description: Image viewers for the framebuffer console (fbi) and X11 (ida) I tried first with "X" USE flag, same problem. Jorge Almeida
