Bug#930011: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Can not login to X

Michel Dänzer michel at daenzer.net
Wed Jun 5 08:21:54 UTC 2019


On 2019-06-05 6:55 a.m., Costas Ganis wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:19.0.1-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Couldn't login to X after buster apt upgrade.
> 
> Solution was to log in as root and do:
> #nano /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
> 
> Replace:
> needs_root_rights=yesallowed_users=anybody
> 
> With:
> needs_root_rights=yes
> allowed_users=anybody
> 
> And press CTRL+ O to save.
> 
> After rebooting all was fine.

This isn't a driver bug. If there's a bug at all, it's in whatever wrote
the mangled /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file.


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