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| From: | Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> |
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o |
| Subject: | [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X. |
| Date: | Sat, 03 Nov 2018 14:02:27 |
| Message-Id: | 20181103140151.GA5029@ACM |
| 1 | Hello, Gentoo. |
| 2 | |
| 3 | HEADS UP!!! |
| 4 | |
| 5 | If you start your X server from the command line with, e.g. startx, you |
| 6 | now need to set the new(?) suid USE flag for the xorg-server package. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | This flag causes the binary to be installed with the setuid file flag, |
| 9 | which causes it to run as root. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version |
| 12 | number from 1.20.3 when making this change, and also didn't notify users |
| 13 | by a NEWS item, that I can see. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | The matter was fairly intensively discussed in bug #669648 in Gentoo's |
| 16 | bugzilla. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | So - if you get a permissions error whilst trying to start X, setting |
| 19 | the suid USE flag may well be the solution. |
| 20 | |
| 21 | -- |
| 22 | Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
| Subject | Author |
|---|---|
| Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X. | Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X. | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> |
| [gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X. | Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X. | Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> |
| [gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X. | Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X. | YUE Daian <sheepduke@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X. | gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> |