On Tue 13 Mar 2012 at 11:05:27 +0100, Andriy Samsonyuk wrote: > i am currenttly running debian 6.0 with 2.6.32-5-486 on CF-27 (toughbook) > 300MHz Pentium II with 128MB RAM. > > I dont need a desktop (gnome, kde, etc) but would like to have X-server > running. > > X starts for root, but not for non-root user > user is in groups: users, tty, audio, video
The normal Debian installation doesn't put a user in the users and tty groups. > /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config is set to > allowed_users=anybody It's usually 'allowed_users=console'. > Every time i start X i get: > > Fatal server error: > xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open /dev/tty0 (No such file or directory) > > changing of the permissions of /dev/tty0 does not help. > > I would appreciate any suggestions! Somebody has walked your path in the past: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618733 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120313115741.GU4889@desktop