* Xuser has no permissions for event devices (no keyboard and mouse in X)
@ 2013-04-02 21:08 Darren Hart
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From: Darren Hart @ 2013-04-02 21:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
Current master atom-pc build + pending 3.8 kernel update us using
rootless X, but X fails to open the event devices. Do we need some kind
of default group permissions for the /dev/input/* devices?
root@atom-pc:/etc/X11# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE | grep "event"
[3430478.394] (EE) evdev: Power Button: Unable to open evdev device
"/dev/input/event2".
[3430478.398] (EE) evdev: Video Bus: Unable to open evdev device
"/dev/input/event3".
[3430478.401] (EE) evdev: Power Button: Unable to open evdev device
"/dev/input/event1".
[3430478.410] (EE) evdev: HP HP Wireless Mini Keyboard: Unable to open
evdev device "/dev/input/event5".
[3430478.414] (EE) evdev: HP HP Wireless Mini Keyboard: Unable to open
evdev device "/dev/input/event6".
[3430478.421] (EE) evdev: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Unable to open
evdev device "/dev/input/event4".
[3430478.434] (EE) synaptics: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad: no synaptics
event device found
...
root@atom-pc:/etc/X11# cat /etc/group | grep xuser
tty:x:5:xuser
audio:x:29:xuser
video:x:44:xuser
xuser:x:1000:
root@atom-pc:/etc/X11# ls -la /dev/input/event
event0 event1 event2 event3 event4 event5 event6 event7
root@atom-pc:/etc/X11# ls -la /dev/input/event*
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 64 Apr 2 20:38 /dev/input/event0
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 65 Apr 2 20:38 /dev/input/event1
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 66 Apr 2 20:38 /dev/input/event2
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 67 Apr 2 20:38 /dev/input/event3
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 68 Apr 2 20:38 /dev/input/event4
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 69 Apr 2 20:52 /dev/input/event5
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 70 Apr 2 20:52 /dev/input/event6
crw-r----- 1 root root 13, 71 Apr 2 20:38 /dev/input/event7
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Darren Hart
Intel Open Source Technology Center
Yocto Project - Technical Lead - Linux Kernel
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