On 31/12/12 08:28, Walter Dnes wrote:
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.
The "suid" USE flag is enabled by default in the xorg-server ebuild:
IUSE="${IUSE_SERVERS} ipv6 minimal nptl selinux +suid tslib +udev"
Since you disabled it on your own, you now get to pick up the pieces.
It's what you wanted.
