On 11/03/18 07:01, 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. > > This flag causes the binary to be installed with the setuid file flag, > which causes it to run as root. > > 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. > > The matter was fairly intensively discussed in bug #669648 in Gentoo's > bugzilla. > > So - if you get a permissions error whilst trying to start X, setting > the suid USE flag may well be the solution. >
I just got hit by this on my mythtv backend, which I only start X to configure the mythtv backend. Yes, enabling the suid USE-flag fixed it (or restored original behaviour?) Dan
