Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:40:29 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: * According to /usr/portage/x11-base/xorg-server/ChangeLog USE=suid has been enabled as of December 20, 2012. If you do not enable it, you will not be able to run startx as a regular user. xdm and other X login

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread covici
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X. I checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact problem, and more importantly, the solution. * Up til now X

[gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread Walter Dnes
I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X. I checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact problem, and more importantly, the solution. * Up til now X has been installed suid by default. This is

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Montag, 31. Dezember 2012, 01:28:17 schrieb Walter Dnes: I ran an update on my netbook today, and couldn't fire up X. I checked out Google on my desktop, and found the website http://en.spontex.org/forum/thread/561/1/ which described the exact problem, and more importantly, the solution.