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Bug#873262: user cannot startx session

From Eggert Ehmke@21:1/5 to All on Sat Aug 26 00:30:02 2017

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Package: xorg

I upgraded a system from jessie to stretch. It is a kiosk system without a window
manager that starts one single application directly via startx. The dedicated user could
not start the session after the upgrade.

With Debian jessie, there were no problems.

I got these errors:
Fatal server error:(EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission
denied)(EE)(EE)Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org[1]

The solution was to issue this command:
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg

I found it in a related Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xinit/+bug/1562219

Regards
Eggert

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Package: xorg
 
I upgraded a system from jessie to stretch. It is a kiosk system without a window manager that starts one single
application directly via startx. The dedicated user could not start the session after the upgrade.
 
With Debian jessie, there were no problems.
 
I got these errors:
Fatal server error: (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission denied) (EE) (EE) Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support ��at <a href="http://wiki.x.org">http://wiki.x.org</a> �for help. (EE) Please also check the log file at "/
home/arch/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. (EE) (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused
 
The solution was to issue this command:
chmod ug+s /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg
 
I found it in a related Ubuntu bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xinit/+bug/1562219
 
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Eggert</body></html>

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From Julien Cristau@21:1/5 to Eggert Ehmke on Mon Aug 28 10:40:01 2017

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On 08/25/2017 11:10 PM, Eggert Ehmke wrote:

Package: xorg

I upgraded a system from jessie to stretch. It is a kiosk system without
a window manager that starts one single application directly via startx.
The dedicated user could not start the session after the upgrade.

With Debian jessie, there were no problems.

I got these errors:

Fatal server error:
(EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission denied)
(EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
(EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/arch/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

The solution was to issue this command:

chmod ug+s /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg

This is not a solution at all, it's opening a glaring security hold on
your machine.

Please show the full Xorg log file.

Cheers,
Julien

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From Eggert Ehmke@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 28 13:30:02 2017

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Am Montag, 28. August 2017, 09:23:11 CEST schrieb Julien Cristau:

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On 08/25/2017 11:10 PM, Eggert Ehmke wrote:

Package: xorg

I upgraded a system from jessie to stretch. It is a kiosk system without
a window manager that starts one single application directly via startx. The dedicated user could not start the session after the upgrade.

With Debian jessie, there were no problems.

I got these errors:

Fatal server error:
(EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission denied) (EE)
(EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support

at http://wiki.x.org

for help.

(EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/arch/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
(EE)
(EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
xinit: giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused

The solution was to issue this command:

chmod ug+s /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg

This is not a solution at all, it's opening a glaring security hold on
your machine.

Please show the full Xorg log file.

I know that is not a good solution, but I had to keep the machine running. It is an isolated system with no other user interaction.

Will get the log ASAP. I do not have permanently access to is so it can take some days.

Regards
Eggert

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From eggert@eehmke.de@21:1/5 to All on Wed Sep 6 00:00:02 2017

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I tried to reproduce the error. As a result to restart my service, I get this message:

$ sudo systemctl status startkladde.service
● startkladde.service - Startkladde
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/startkladde.service; enabled; vendor preset:
enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-09-01 20:40:20 CEST; 27s ago
Process: 16377 ExecStart=/usr/bin/sudo -u startkladde startx /usr/local/bin/ startkladde_wrapper (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 16377 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Sep 01 20:40:05 startkladde sudo[16377]: (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/
startkladde/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
Sep 01 20:40:05 startkladde sudo[16377]: (EE)
Sep 01 20:40:05 startkladde sudo[16377]: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log
file.
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde sudo[16377]: xinit: giving up
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde sudo[16377]: xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection
refused
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde sudo[16377]: xinit: server error
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde systemd[1]: startkladde.service: Main process exited,
code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde systemd[1]: Failed to start Startkladde.
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde systemd[1]: startkladde.service: Unit entered failed state.
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde systemd[1]: startkladde.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

File Xorg.0.log is attached. I guess the fault is here:
Fatal server error:
[ 9889.428] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 2 (Permission denied)

This system has be fresh upgraded from Debian 8.9 to 9.1. Before the upgrade this was
working.

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I tried to reproduce the error. As a result to restart my service, I get this message:
 
$ sudo systemctl status startkladde.service 
● startkladde.service - Startkladde 
 Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/startkladde.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) 
 Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Fri 2017-09-01 20:40:20 CEST; 27s ago 
 Process: 16377 ExecStart=/usr/bin/sudo -u startkladde startx /usr/local/bin/startkladde_wrapper (code=exited, status=
1/FAILURE) 
Main PID: 16377 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) 
 
Sep 01 20:40:05 startkladde sudo[16377]: (EE) Please also check the log file at "/home/startkladde/.local/share/
xorg/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. 
Sep 01 20:40:05 startkladde sudo[16377]: (EE) 
Sep 01 20:40:05 startkladde sudo[16377]: (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. 
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde sudo[16377]: xinit: giving up 
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde sudo[16377]: xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused 
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde sudo[16377]: xinit: server error 
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde systemd[1]: startkladde.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE 
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde systemd[1]: Failed to start Startkladde. 
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde systemd[1]: startkladde.service: Unit entered failed state. 
Sep 01 20:40:20 startkladde systemd[1]: startkladde.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
 
File Xorg.0.log is attached. I guess the fault is here:
Fatal server error:
[ 9889.428] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 2 (Permission denied)
 
This system has be fresh upgraded from Debian 8.9 to 9.1. Before the upgrade this was working.
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