Kodi-rpi and gnome

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I usually use kodi-rpi with hardware decoding under xfce/kms, and i could switch easily between tty with ctl-alt-F2 et go back to the session after closing kodi with ctl-alt-F7.

Under gnome the keys are ctl-alt-F3 and alt-F2, no problem to switch except with kodi.
Kodi is opening but no keyboard or mouse interaction. I must reboot. And it’s not a crash because after a few minutes the screen dims and the log is registered visually. Any ideas ? problem of group ownership or permission ? I don’t want to use the sytemctl enable disable kodi/gdm.

errors in the kodi.log :

2022-05-15 02:33:18.352 T:7559    DEBUG <general>: CApplication::CreateGUI - trying to init x11 windowing system
2022-05-15 02:33:18.352 T:7559    DEBUG <general>: CWinSystemX11::InitWindowSystem - DISPLAY env not set
2022-05-15 02:33:18.352 T:7559    DEBUG <general>: CApplication::CreateGUI - unable to init x11 windowing system
2022-05-15 02:33:18.352 T:7559    DEBUG <general>: CApplication::CreateGUI - trying to init gbm windowing system
2022-05-15 02:33:18.372 T:7559    ERROR <general>: open_restricted - failed to open /dev/input/event6 (Permission denied)
2022-05-15 02:33:18.373 T:7559    ERROR <general>: open_restricted - failed to open /dev/input/event0 (Permission denied)
2022-05-15 02:33:18.374 T:7559    ERROR <general>: open_restricted - failed to open /dev/input/event1 (Permission denied)
2022-05-15 02:33:18.376 T:7559    ERROR <general>: open_restricted - failed to open /dev/input/event2 (Permission denied)
2022-05-15 02:33:18.376 T:7559    ERROR <general>: open_restricted - failed to open /dev/input/event3 (Permission denied)
2022-05-15 02:33:18.377 T:7559    ERROR <general>: open_restricted - failed to open /dev/input/event5 (Permission denied)

2022-05-15 02:33:18.244 T:7559    DEBUG <general>: DBus method call to org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.CanStop at /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager of org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files

DEBUG <general>: EGL Debugging:  Error: EGL_BAD_SURFACE
                                 Command: eglSwapBuffers
                                 Type: EGL_DEBUG_MSG_ERROR_KHR
                                 Message: dri2_swap_buffers

cat /etc/group

input:x:994:kodi
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Have you tried adding your self to the input group?

3 
groups bloodmoon
sys network scanner power wheel lp optical storage video bloodmoon
groups kodi
network power audio disk input optical storage tty video kodi

i’m going to try :

usermod -a -G input bloodmoon

Bingo :+1: