Bug 69727

Summary:	weston-launch: failed to get current keyboard mode: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Product:	Wayland	Reporter:	U. Artie Eoff <ullysses.a.eoff>
Component:	weston	Assignee:	Wayland bug list <wayland-bugs>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description U. Artie Eoff 2013-09-23 18:48:51 UTC

weston-launch fails to run when executed from a Gnome-Terminal or via an ssh session.  It prints out the following error message:

weston-launch: failed to get current keyboard mode: Inappropriate ioctl for device
: Inappropriate ioctl for device

The only way weston-launch will run is if you execute it locally from a text console.

wayland (HEAD) 1.2.91-0-g4125367
drm (HEAD) libdrm-2.4.46-0-gc6d73cf
mesa (9.2) heads/9.2-0-g2cda3f0
libva (HEAD) libva-1.2.1-0-g88ed1eb
intel-driver (HEAD) 1.2.0-0-g6898ab7
weston (HEAD) 1.2.91-0-g7799385

Comment 1 Kristian Høgsberg 2013-10-02 20:07:10 UTC

commit e05f228a5f60bdd41edfd92b12731a42110a5743
Author: Kristian Høgsberg <krh@bitplanet.net>
Date:   Wed Oct 2 13:06:02 2013 -0700

    launcher: Print a more descriptive error message when we don't get a VT
    
    weston-launch has two supported use cases now: either launch from
    and VT login as a regular user (running within that session) or
    from an init script (systemd or such) with the -u option to create
    a session for the specified user.  Running from within X or ssh is
    not possible.  It's still possible to run weston as root from X or ssh
    but that's strictly a development/debug/test feature.
    
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69727

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