Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

[James Richardson <james@jamestechnotes.com>]

Sven Joachim writes:

> On 2015-10-09 22:24 +0200, James Richardson wrote:
>
>> I just did an apt-get upgrade, rebooted, then X would start but without
>> any keyboard or mouse.
>>

[snip]
>
> Actually, if you were running systemd, logind would grant access to the
> input devices.  Since this is apparently not what you want, your best
> bet is probably to install the xserver-xorg-legacy package which now
> contains the setuid wrapper.
>

I will look at xserver-xorg-legacy.

> Adding users to the input group is not recommended, since you don't want
> users who are logged in remotely via SSH to snoop on your keyboard.
>

Good point.

--
James