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From: Arve Barsnes <arve.barsnes@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2021 14:46:10
Message-Id: CAJjrzcV9d=a4dncTGrD_XmuXd40z2z4DEXX+Ah2fqDjzWcZM0Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start by Philip Webb
1 On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 16:27, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 > I just updated to the latest Xscreensaver-6.01-r1.
4
5 Did you mean -r3? I've been on that for over a month, and the only
6 other version available to me is 5.45-r4.
7
8 > I emerged it with USE flag 'elogind' & don't use Systemd.
9 > 'which xscreensaver-systemd' finds nothing
10 > nor can I see any helpful messages in a file in /var/log .
11 > I have set the binary's permissions to SUID :
12 >
13 > root:526 /usr/bin> ls -l xscreensaver
14 > -rws--s--x 1 root root 51880 Aug 31 07:18 xscreensaver
15 >
16 > Can anyone offer advice ?
17
18 Not sure if this is helpful, but I have neither elogind or systemd in
19 USE for this package, and it seems to work fine.
20
21 Regards,
22 Arve

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Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start : solved Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>