Ray Andrews: > > Package: upgrade-reports > Severity: important > > Dear Maintainer, > > [...] > > I track 'testing' and upgrade every few days, almost always without any > issues. However a couple of weeks ago the upgrade caused my Xorg to > fail with the above message. Looking at Xorg.0.log, comparing a good > version (running a backup) with the failed upgrade, the first sign of > trouble is the message: "failed to set drm version". > > lspci reports my card: > NVIDIA Corporation GF119 [GeForce GT 610] (rev a1) > > I use the nouveau driver. I have an Xorg.conf, but it works fine prior > to the upgrade. Removing Xorg.conf made no difference (I need it to get > my dual monitors working). I tried reinstalling every package that has > 'drm' in its name with no change. If it is relevant, recent efforts at > upgrades on the broken install (I have expected that this bug would fix > itself after a few subsequent upgrades) report something to the effect > that the signature of the upgrade has not been updated--or something > like that. > >
Hi Ray, Are you using the setuid version of X11 or the new non-setuid version? And in the latter case, do you have libpam-systemd installed? Possibly related information: > xorg-server (2:1.17.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium > > The Xorg server is no longer setuid root by default. This change > reduces the > risk of privilege escalation due to X server bugs, but has some side > effects: > > * it relies on logind and libpam-systemd > * it relies on a kernel video driver (so the userspace component doesn't > touch the hardware directly) > * it needs X to run on the virtual console (VT) it was started from > * it changes the location for storing the Xorg log from /var/log/ to > ~/.local/share/xorg/ > > On systems where those are not available, the new xserver-xorg-legacy > package > is needed to allow X to run with elevated privileges. See the > Xwrapper.config(5) manual page for configuration details. > > -- Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:54:11 +0000 Thanks, ~Niels
