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 what allows regular users to start X with startx <G>. * 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 managers will still work. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
