bug#25865: xinit does not allow non-root startx

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello,

Alex Vestgaard <address@hidden> skribis:

> xinit suffers from an upstream bug, which does not allow non-root X to be run 
> without a display manager via startx or xinitrc. Several people have reported 
> this on #guix.
>
> Currently if one runs startx as non-root, X reports:
> (EE) parse_vt_settings: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (Permission denied)
>
> This bug is further discussed in [1]. Redhat seems to have a patch [2], but 
> it is unclear to me whether this has been applied upstream.
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xinit/+bug/1562219
> [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1203780

Did you have a change to try Red Hat’s patch?  It could be a good
starting point.

Thanks for your report,
Ludo’.