On 30.11.2013 18:22, Dan McGhee wrote: > For the first time in my LFS life I got this message. Just so people > can roll their eyes, but also to provide info, I use the Package Users > system. This error, I thought, came from faulty permissions, <ls -alQ> > gives: > >> -rwsr-sr-x 1 10118 10118 12630128 Nov 29 15:27 "Xorg" > > Where user and group 10118 are "xorg-server." > > I get a number of other messages when I use <startx>, but this one is > the first message and it's the only "Fatal server error" message. Since > I have no log, I don't know where to begin to troubleshoot. The only > other obvious thing is something about which I've never thought before. > There is a link "/usr/bin/X -->/usr/bin/Xorg" that is not suid. The > link is executable by all and I've never thought about the need to make > a link suid. > > Anyway, I just need some suggestions on where to look for the problem. > I installed everything in Ch. 24 of BLFS-SVN and non-root. I've never > encountered this situation before and am stumped. My only goal right > now is to get the server up and running even if nothing else works. > > Thanks, > Dan > > >
XServer executable *needs* to be setuid root (It's important that's also owned by root:root). Also, links can't be setuid. Links have same permissions as the thing they are symlink to. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
