Bug#802327: xserver-xorg-core: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
That's what I assumed too, except that X also fails to launch via gdm3
without the legacy wrapper if I remove the Geode driver and let the
Xserver use its own choice of fbdev or its built-in modeline driver.
Martin-Éric
2015-10-19 20:00 GMT+03:00 Julien Cristau <julien@cristau.org>:
> Gdm now starts X as the user, I guess lightdm starts it as root.
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
>
> On October 19, 2015 6:45:15 PM CEST, "Martin-Éric Racine"
> <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>> 2015-10-19 18:31 GMT+03:00 Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>:
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 17:27:35 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>>>
>>>> Package: xserver-xorg-core
>>>> Version: 2:1.17.2-3
>>>> Severity: important
>>>>
>>>> Since a new Xorg transitioned into Testing today, X flat out fails to
>>>> launch.
>>>>
>>>> $ ls -al /dev/fb0
>>>> crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 loka 19 2015 /dev/fb0
>>>>
>>>> $ ls -al /dev/cpu/0/msr
>>>> crw------- 1 root root 202, 0 loka 19 2015 /dev/cpu/0/msr
>>>
>>>
>>> If the geode driver requires running X as root, it should depend on the
>>> new xserver-xorg-legacy package.
>>
>>
>> lightdm launches fine as-is with the Geode driver. Only gdm3 !
>> seems
>> to
>> require that special wrapper to launch on Geode.
>>
>> -- Martin-Éric
>>
>
> --
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