Bug#618733: x11-common: startx as non-root no longer working
Thusly spoke Julien Cristau (jcristau@debian.org on 2011-03-18 23:18
+0100):
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 23:14:11 +0100, Arno Schuring wrote:
>
> > > you're missing /usr/bin/X?
> > Yes, it appears so:
> >
> > aschuring@neminis:~$ file /usr/bin/X
> > /usr/bin/X: ERROR: cannot open `/usr/bin/X' (No such file or
> > directory) aschuring@neminis:~$ apt-file search /usr/bin/X | grep
> > -w X xserver-xorg: /usr/bin/X
> >
> > But that shouldn't really be surprising given that xserver-xorg is
> > not installed. Like I said, reinstalling xserver-xorg does not
> > help, at least not by itself.
> >
> Well, X not working when xserver-xorg is not installed is kinda the
> expected result.
Yet, I have no issues with X when started through my ?dm flavour of the
month (currently gdm3). Cue eerie twilight-zone soundtrack...
Maybe I'm just misreading this, but from the changelog I had assumed
that not having xserver-xorg installed is a valid configuration:
xorg-server (2:1.9.4-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Put an end to the dependency hell! Now that we have proper
dependencies between drivers and the server, remove xserver-xorg
from xserver-xorg-core's Depends (Closes: #362313). In a nutshell,
one may want to choose between installing:
- xserver-xorg-core: the server itself, with no strings attached.
- xserver-xorg: pulls the server and drivers, contains the X wrapper
and some documentation.
- xorg: pulls xserver-xorg as well as various X11 clients and fonts.
-- Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:17:07 +0100
Nevertheless, the original bug still stands: I can't startx as normal
user even with xserver-xorg installed. I still get the same error about
not being able to move/rename Xorg.0.log...
aschuring@neminis:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/X
-rwsr-sr-x 1 root root 7052 Feb 25 22:20 /usr/bin/X
Regards,
Arno
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