[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

2018-11-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/11/2018 18:35, Rich Freeman wrote: On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:27 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/11/2018 17:30, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2018-11-04, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/11/2018 16:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote: The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

2018-11-05 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 11:27 AM Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 05/11/2018 17:30, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2018-11-04, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> On 03/11/2018 16:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >>> The developers, in this instance, failed to raise the ebuild's version > >>> number from 1.20.3

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

2018-11-05 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/11/2018 17:30, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2018-11-04, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 03/11/2018 16:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote: 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

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

2018-11-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-11-04, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 03/11/2018 16:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> 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. > > Emerge will catch this,

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

2018-11-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-11-03, 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. Yep, I tripped over this yesterday, when all of a sudden I couldn't start X

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

2018-11-04 Thread Daniel Frey
On 11/04/18 02:22, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 03:11:45 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> 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. >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

2018-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 03:11:45 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > 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. > > Emerge will catch this, no need for

[gentoo-user] Re: Permissions error on starting X.

2018-11-03 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/11/2018 16:01, Alan Mackenzie wrote: 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. Emerge will catch this, no need for revbump. Unless you're not using -D