On 11/30/2013 12:23 PM, Armin K. wrote: > 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" > XServer executable *needs* to be setuid root (It's important that's also > owned by root:root). I discovered that quite by accident when I ran <chown root:root /usr/bin/Xorg>. I had thought previously that Xorg needed to be only suid. I learned something.
Now "X" starts as root, but not as me. I get: > Fatal server error: > [ 700.680] (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 > (Permission denied) This occurs, as I said, when I'm logged in as me and not root. I do not know what generates the "xf86OpenConsole" messages. Again it appears to be permissions, but I don't know where to look unless, perhaps, I need to change the ownership and/or permissions of the xf86 drivers that I installed--evdev, synaptics, fbdev and vesa. I added myself to the tty group to get as far as the above error message. As me, the Xorg server couldn't access /dev/tty until I did. > Also, links can't be setuid. Links have same permissions as the thing > they are symlink to. I thought that the symlink question might have been a crazy one when I asked it. At the time, my finding was cycling through all "possible and obvious" permission options. Thanks again, Armin. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
