> > Then perhaps something got unset from being SUID root on my > > system during installation. Looking at /usr/X11R6/bin/startx, > > the last line exec's xinit ... ls -l /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit shows: > > /usr/X11R6/bin/xinit isn't the wrapper, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is. xinit and/or > xdm both invoke that to start the X server, which in turn digs around in > /etc/X11/Xserver to find out (a) who may run it and (b) what the correct X > server to run is. > > Incidentally, why does /usr/bin/X11, which the X and FHS folks (if I recall > correctly) deprecated, seem to be making a resurgence in Debian?
And X is SUID as it should be. Curiouser and curiouser. Hmm. Well one problem is that when I try to strace running startx, it segfaults. I could strace the strace, the the packaged one doesn't have any debugging symbols, so I'll build one and look at it tonight... > > Sure, why not? Or then, if the *only* mouse device is /dev/sunmouse > > then /dev/mouse could be the device and /dev/sunmouse can be > > skipped altogether... I'm indifferent... it's truly a matter of > > preference. I for one would probably just do the symlink method. > > I'd rather not see /dev/sunmouse disappear, because there may be things > unbeknownst to both of us that refer to it directly. Heh, yeah... that's pretty much why I was figuring to do the symlink method.
