Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2013-01-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:40:29 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > * 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 lo

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-31 Thread covici
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 instal

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
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 soluti

[gentoo-user] Heads up if you start X with startx; xorg-server suid flag

2012-12-30 Thread 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 wha