On Sat, Dec 22, 2018 at 07:32:46PM -0700, Se7en wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> I have had many issues with an upgrade from Jessie to ASCII, and have voiced
> my complaints in IRC. Some of these issues are also reported in Debian Proper
> with no proposed solutions. I feel the need to voice them.
>
> First issue (Reported in Debian): X11 doesn't start up without root
> permissions. The issue is reported at
> <http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=130587> and the solution is a
> work-around to change a conf file to run as root.

Please have a look at the ascii release notes:

https://files.devuan.org/devuan_ascii/Release_notes.txt

look for " - Starting X from a terminal".

HND

KatolaZ

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