"xinit -- :1" Not working for F21

[Philip Rhoades]

Marko,


On 2014-12-17 21:22, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:40:33 +1100
> Philip Rhoades <phil at pricom.com.au> wrote:
>> 
>> I occasionally start a second X display from a console login with:
>> 
>>    "xinit -- :1
>> 
>> but after upgrading to F21 it just hangs with an underscore in the
>> top left of the screen and I have to do a remote log in and kill the
>> process.  I attach the log but I am not sure if it indicates what the
>> problem is . .
> 
> I'd try to look into the cause of these:
> 
> [268529.443] (II) intel(0): switch to mode 1440x900 at 60.0 on VGA1 using
> pipe 0, position (0, 0), rotation normal, reflection none
> [268529.449] (EE) intel(0): failed to set mode: Permission denied [13]
> [268529.450] (WW) intel(0): failed to restore desired modes on VT 
> switch
> [268529.450] (EE) intel(0): sna_mode_check: invalid state found on pipe
> 0, disabling CRTC:7
> 
> The "permission denied" piece smells bad... :-)


It appears that the process is waiting for the other X process to 
terminate - I think it might have something to do with
F21 now running X as rootless and maybe Kernel Mode Setting?  I found 
that the following now works (and does what I want - where it didn't 
before):

   startx -- :1

Regards,

Phil.
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