Package: xserver-xsun Version: 3.3.2.3a-11 Severity: important Orion the Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Quoting Eric Delaunay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > About wrong /dev/fb0 permissions, could someone investigate why X does not > > find > > the device if not world writable ? I was not able to track it down to the > > point (strace is segfaulting early on X, Xsun, startx, ...). > > Even with Xsun running suid I get the following error: "no screen found". > > I ran startx under strace and the problem seems to be that > /usr/bin/X11/Xsun is testing access permissions for /dev/fb[012] using > the access() system call, which uses the real user ID instead of the > effective user ID. I have never worried about X with my PC and > therefore I don't know how it works, but I'd say the approach taken by > Xsun is not the correct one. It would seem not. Branden, is this possible to fix for slink? Branden, this problem probably also occurs for xserver-xsunmono and xserver-mach64. I'm not sure why only the sparc X servers seem prone to this. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
