From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC4DC138334 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 06:20:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E3A90E0970; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 06:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pf1-x42c.google.com (mail-pf1-x42c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::42c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5155DE0950 for ; Sun, 4 Nov 2018 06:20:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pf1-x42c.google.com with SMTP id v9-v6so579759pff.2 for ; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 23:20:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DJ7HGaaHXwAQJlJ61aCkeKAQZWvtLbxw+ckQi9rm+yA=; b=WRxdCptjWKRAcAmv1f6uOl3bqoW10EeHwklKDp/SXLNuS7L39iYGI540R4GFlt1UDz 0ls8+S4WuQLDohiNuUtkXESdI1TNLdrrDU0TkfDSC8VYFdF+uzNpHV57Tt5psOa9JmKj BtRtRR0zRSdTA3kr+0IFYCNXMj+Bt5b5pSBhVmsQ9Je570UBjsrMZ/m7XA1qtfdHtPe1 kL9H2QS9JjEVjB8Ez/RhAYPzVRwOjEcpqSfh0ucQm46FyPlm6egUciLprRri9WFo+4Wu +McPt8ms7GY9eas4yJpdQZE9X0BB0QUIOJZLzuA0+4JJCN1pqliF8+XLzEcc8Ejl8v08 LKvA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DJ7HGaaHXwAQJlJ61aCkeKAQZWvtLbxw+ckQi9rm+yA=; b=etCEwiVoXOg8LfZsnw6ZGuBT3eitycyhkbz5x2Cpn4afXoOAwAEOZ6Me9K0qMnwoHa gSi1klT9q582OvVz1xxKd8vD2a7Rz/DfyGwaRWDbbq09lA0hYX6n3jh7aAzQZjbgsm19 cxVfV/T2hueUC3ZzpmgZ8IQtj0ud4dtdunO2fK8Y8YJfyRWe88Z/T05UjsUHhoMqFE/w Lsnt+iSlfWznZb91x9NpfxXkz8tt6fBNW1bXH9Gkl+eAYgc22ezEQiWo/SnMwF2VGoKu vHlYDgfPwxLGS4U1WOp9IarsW3N8oyr5PWjOrEX/XOEFjJ/OvZZsUBIvaumLE/8AX2lf 6xVA== X-Gm-Message-State: AGRZ1gK77I8LX2cDpU39Bci6jbKL3bRJGs4P1TFXZFr/a36M/+4oMM5k cLFtDR0uws6MgJNN5jKU58A4TSjv X-Google-Smtp-Source: AJdET5db/TsASfhph5gtrsdtL+rdMaQgpdhM3dCgkYfy041kKnagWr5C1i5W9oU2YvpXrrPMjgzLBw== X-Received: by 2002:a63:1c64:: with SMTP id c36-v6mr15735017pgm.354.1541312402704; Sat, 03 Nov 2018 23:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.247.60] (d207-6-89-225.bchsia.telus.net. [207.6.89.225]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id b16-v6sm41504861pgl.66.2018.11.03.23.20.01 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 03 Nov 2018 23:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20181103140151.GA5029@ACM> From: Daniel Frey Message-ID: <9e23db72-6f1a-1159-9146-ca3c665c8b79@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 23:20:00 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20181103140151.GA5029@ACM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d8daadfa-5cca-4441-acc2-f4f195ccb486 X-Archives-Hash: 5e58b011eac53611f9ef5918175a2105 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