> On 22 Sep 2020, at 12:36, Marc Shapiro via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
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> I have pretty much decided that there is no way to upgrade my Debian system to Buster and keep it usable without systemd. Since I am set up for multiboot, including Devuan Ascii, I decided to upgrade that to Beowulf and see if that will work for me and the others using this box.
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> After upgrading (following the instructions for upgrading an existing Devuan system), I rebooted the computer.
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> First, I booted into my Debian Stretch partition to make sure that everything was still good, there. Boot, login, start Xorg. All looks good.
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> Logout and reboot into Beowulf.
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> Boot and login went fine. Starting Xorg, not so well. Tried all three users with no luck. This worked before the upgrade. Tried as root. Success! So root can start Xorg, but not an ordinary user. Any ideas what might be wrong. It looks like a permissions issue, but I don't know enough about how X actually starts up to know where to look. Anything that you want me to post to help debug this?
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> Any help appreciated.
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>
> Marc

If you are starting X from a terminal/tty, the Beowulf release notes mention the required configuration to start X as non-root.

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

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Tom