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Bug#618733: x11-common: startx as non-root no longer working



Arno Schuring <aelschuring@hotmail.com> (19/03/2011):
> 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.
>     […]

(Since I wrote that…) you assumed correctly, that is a valid
configuration. But that means you get to figure out how to run the
server yourself.

> 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...

With just startx, from a console? With both anybody and console?

KiBi.

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