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From: Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] startx Cannot open virtual console 7
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 14:05:36
Message-Id: e5abfec2-30b9-f9b6-3176-f763fc0fce02@users.sourceforge.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] startx Cannot open virtual console 7 by edes
1 On 10/27/20 8:53 AM, edes wrote:
2 > el Tue, 27 Oct 2020 09:35:25 -0300
3 > edes <edes@×××.net> escribió:
4 >
5 >> Just to be sure: I should enable the -suid USE flag in
6 >> x11-base/xorg-server?
7 > Just for the record, I rebuilt x11-base/xorg-server with +suid, and the
8 > problem persists:
9 >
10 > $ startx -- vt7
11 > Fatal server error:
12 > (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied)
13 From one of your earlier posts, it looks like tty0-tty9 all exist. My
14 guess is that getty was launched on all of them.  Since that is owned by
15 root (until someone logs in) you certainly don't have permission to use
16 it for X.  I'm not sure where the list of vts on which to spawn getty is
17 controlled, but that's what I'd look for.

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Re: [gentoo-user] startx Cannot open virtual console 7 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>