Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid

From	James Richardson <james@jamestechnotes.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid
Date	2015-10-12 16:10 +0200
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Sven Joachim writes:

> On 2015-10-09 22:24 +0200, James Richardson wrote:
>
>> I just did an apt-get upgrade, rebooted, then X would start but without
>> any keyboard or mouse.
>>

[snip]
>
> Actually, if you were running systemd, logind would grant access to the
> input devices.  Since this is apparently not what you want, your best
> bet is probably to install the xserver-xorg-legacy package which now
> contains the setuid wrapper.
>

I will look at xserver-xorg-legacy.

> Adding users to the input group is not recommended, since you don't want
> users who are logged in remotely via SSH to snoop on your keyboard.
>

Good point.

--
James

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X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid  James Richardson <james@jamestechnotes.com> - 2015-10-09 22:30 +0200
  Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-10-09 23:30 +0200
    Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 06:10 +0200
  Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2015-10-09 23:50 +0200
    Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2015-10-10 00:10 +0200
    Re: X not working after apt-get upgrade on sid James Richardson <james@jamestechnotes.com> - 2015-10-12 16:10 +0200

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