Bug#622660: xserver-xorg-video-vesa: The vesa video driver does not allow users on the console to execute "X". Wrong statement
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 05:52:11PM +0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-vesa
> Version: 1:2.3.0-5
> Severity: normal
>
>
> Executing "X" on a console (/dev/tty?) (a laptop computer)
> with the "vesa" video driver results in an error message:
>
> X: user not authorized to run the X server, aborting.
>
> The file "/etc/X11/Xwrapper.config" contains:
>
> allowed_users=console
>
> This parameter must then be changed to "anybody" to bypass the
> error.
>
> That should not be necessary.
>
I can not reproduce this behaviour. The next time (only once) I
got this error, I was using the trident video driver. This was
also after I installed package "xserver-xorg-core-dbg".
This is therefore a rare situation and belongs to the
"xserver-xorg-core" package.
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>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 6.0.1
> APT prefers stable-updates
> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: i386 (i586)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-33
> Locale: LANG=is_IS, LC_CTYPE=is_IS (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
>
> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-vesa depends on:
> ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
> ii libdrm2 2.4.21-1~squeeze3 Userspace interface to kernel DRM
> ii xserver-xorg-core [xor 2:1.9.5-1 Xorg X server - core server
>
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Bjarni I. Gíslason
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