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Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)"

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On 11/06/2015 11:56 PM, Niels Thykier wrote:
>
Thanks for giving this some time Neils, it would be a shame if I had to 
stop using Debian due to this bug.
> Hi Ray,
>
> Are you using the setuid version of X11 or the new non-setuid version?
> And in the latter case, do you have libpam-systemd installed?

Yes, and reinstalled with no change.
>
> Possibly related information:
>> xorg-server (2:1.17.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
>>
>>    The Xorg server is no longer setuid root by default.  This change
>> reduces the
>>    risk of privilege escalation due to X server bugs, but has some side
>> effects:
>>
>>    * it relies on logind and libpam-systemd
>>    * it relies on a kernel video driver (so the userspace component doesn't
>>      touch the hardware directly)
>>    * it needs X to run on the virtual console (VT) it was started from
>>    * it changes the location for storing the Xorg log from /var/log/ to
>>      ~/.local/share/xorg/
>>
>>    On systems where those are not available, the new xserver-xorg-legacy
>> package
>>    is needed to allow X to run with elevated privileges.  See the
>>    Xwrapper.config(5) manual page for configuration details.
>>
>>   -- Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>  Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:54:11
Everything there reinstalled too, but no joy.

I wonder if I can move away from 'legacy' entirely?

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Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)" Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> - 2015-11-01 17:10 +0100
  Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)" Haricophile <haricophile@aranha.fr> - 2015-11-02 18:20 +0100
    Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)" Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> - 2015-11-08 22:00 +0100
  Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)" Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> - 2015-11-07 09:10 +0100
    Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)" Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> - 2015-11-07 18:30 +0100
  Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)" Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> - 2015-11-08 22:00 +0100
    Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)" Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> - 2015-11-08 23:30 +0100
      Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)" Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> - 2015-11-12 18:40 +0100
  Bug#803667: Business proposal Lucia Duran <lduran@ine.gub.uy> - 2018-04-19 00:40 +0200

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