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On 2018-11-03, 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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Yep, I tripped over this yesterday, when all of a sudden I couldn't |
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start X anymore. Thanks for the advanced notice on that one! |
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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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Yea, that seems like a major foul-up to me. I had to log in as root |
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so that I could start X, so that I could use google to try to figure |
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out what went wrong. |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My LESLIE GORE record |
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at is BROKEN ... |
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gmail.com |
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