Bug#801401: cannot start X from the console command line

[Kelly Clowers <kelly.clowers@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 15:48:09 -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>
>> I just hit this bug as well.
>>
>> I have a bash script that sets the WM I choose (from when I was trying
>> different ones - now I always choose "awesome"), and then does "exec
>> xinit". Ultimately xinitrc is running the command "awesome" which
>> starts Awesome WM. No idea what Awesome does internally, but it has
>> always worked.
>>
> You need to make sure X is started on the current VT.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien


Attempting startx makes it try the same VT, but it still fails with
"xf86EnableIOPorts: failed to set IOPL for I/O (Operation not
permitted)"

Dunno if that is what actually stops it, but it the only possibly
relevant error I see.
(Other errors are just complaining about the old font dirs and
unloading libinput for things like the speaker event file - which
happen even when it successfully runs as root.)

Thanks,
Kelly Clowers