Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X.

[Daniel Frey <djqfrey@gmail.com>]

On 11/03/18 07:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Gentoo.
> 
> HEADS UP!!!
> 
> If you start your X server from the command line with, e.g. startx, you
> now need to set the new(?) suid USE flag for the xorg-server package.
> 
> This flag causes the binary to be installed with the setuid file flag,
> which causes it to run as root.
> 
> The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version
> number from 1.20.3 when making this change, and also didn't notify users
> by a NEWS item, that I can see.
> 
> The matter was fairly intensively discussed in bug #669648 in Gentoo's
> bugzilla.
> 
> So - if you get a permissions error whilst trying to start X, setting
> the suid USE flag may well be the solution.
> 

I just got hit by this on my mythtv backend, which I only start X to
configure the mythtv backend.

Yes, enabling the suid USE-flag fixed it (or restored original behaviour?)

Dan