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On 2018-11-03 14:01, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hello, Gentoo. |
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> HEADS UP!!! |
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> If you start your X server from the command line with, e.g. startx, you |
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> now need to set the new(?) suid USE flag for the xorg-server package. |
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> This flag causes the binary to be installed with the setuid file flag, |
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> which causes it to run as root. |
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> The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version |
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> number from 1.20.3 when making this change, and also didn't notify users |
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> by a NEWS item, that I can see. |
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> The matter was fairly intensively discussed in bug #669648 in Gentoo's |
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> bugzilla. |
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> So - if you get a permissions error whilst trying to start X, setting |
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> the suid USE flag may well be the solution. |
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> -- |
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> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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I got the same problem yesterday. |
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My setup was startx + StumpWM. |
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I got "setblabla error: cannot open /dev/tty0 (permission denied)". |
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A possible solution without changing anything unnecessary is to run |
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startx as "startx -- vt1". |
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No need to change permission/ownership of anything. |
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It is just required that the user is in "video" group. No "tty" or |
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"input" needed. |
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I presume it is because your user does not have access to TTY other than |
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its login TTY. So if you log in by "tty1", just start X in "vt1". |
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Hope that helps somehow. |
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Danny |
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