On 2018-11-03, Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> 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.
Yep, I tripped over this yesterday, when all of a sudden I couldn't start X anymore. Thanks for the advanced notice on that one! > 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. Yea, that seems like a major foul-up to me. I had to log in as root so that I could start X, so that I could use google to try to figure out what went wrong. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My LESLIE GORE record at is BROKEN ... gmail.com