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.
> 
> * 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.

what do we learn?
always use -v
always read the output
always check the meaning of changed/added flags.

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