Re: User looses access to DISPLAY
From: Kent West (westk_at_acu.edu)
Date: 11/06/03
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Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:49:51 -0600 To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Haines Brown wrote:
> Finally bringing to conclusion my first debian (3.0r.1) install, I
> ran aptitude update. When I subsequently rebooted, user cannot start
> x, but root can.
>
> I reconfigured XF86Config-4 by running dpgk-reconfigure , using the
> simple configuration, which worked before, and kept the same
> values. But that did not help. There are a couple warnings in the
> XF85config log (a set of fonts does not exist; can't open APM), but no
> errors.
>
> When root runs # echo $DISPLAY, it returns: :0.0.
> But when user runs $ echo $DISPLAY, there is nothing.
>
> I'm currently logged in as root, and in an xterm su to user to handle
> my mail. I find that user can start emacs, but not other x
> clients. The error returned when I try is that there is no display
> name and no DISPLAY variable.
>
> I don't think I did anything that would affect authentification.
>
> Haines Brown
>
>
Create a new user, and see if that user has the same problems.
Also check
enjae[westk]:/home/westk> sudo cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
Password:
allowed_users=console
nice_value=-10
If the "allowed_users" is not "console", either change it, or better
yet, run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common", which I believe will give
you the option to change who can run the server.
If I log in as a normal user into a text console (no X11) and run "echo
$DISPLAY", I too get nothing displayed. I don't think the lack of having
a display env-var set is a problem.
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