Source: xorg Version: 1:7.7+18 Severity: serious With virtualbox-dkms gone for stretch, trying to install GNOME inside Virtualbox will lead to gdm failing to start, as it tries to run Xorg as unprivileged user. This requires a KMS compatible driver though. Same is true for users of startx. They need the suid wrapper provided by xserver-xorg-legacy in such a case.
Not having the Xorg.wrap suid wrapper is a worthwile goal, but I guess we are not quite there yet, as there are still to many popular cases where it's needed. I would thus like to see xserver-xorg-legacy added as a Recommends to one of the xorg packages. This means it would be installed on upgrades and new installations but users with a KMS compatible driver can uninstall it. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages xserver-xorg depends on: ii x11-xkb-utils 7.7+3+b1 ii xkb-data 2.19-1 ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.3-1 ii xserver-xorg-input-all 1:7.7+18 ii xserver-xorg-input-evdev [xorg-driver-input] 1:2.10.5-1 ii xserver-xorg-input-libinput [xorg-driver-input] 0.23.0-2 ii xserver-xorg-input-wacom [xorg-driver-input] 0.34.0-1 ii xserver-xorg-video-all 1:7.7+18 ii xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu [xorg-driver-video] 1.2.0-1+b1 ii xserver-xorg-video-ati [xorg-driver-video] 1:7.8.0-1+b1 ii xserver-xorg-video-fbdev [xorg-driver-video] 1:0.4.4-1+b5 ii xserver-xorg-video-nouveau [xorg-driver-video] 1:1.0.13-3 ii xserver-xorg-video-radeon [xorg-driver-video] 1:7.8.0-1+b1 ii xserver-xorg-video-vesa [xorg-driver-video] 1:2.3.4-1+b2 ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware [xorg-driver-video] 1:13.2.1-1+b1 Versions of packages xserver-xorg recommends: ii libgl1-mesa-dri 13.0.6-1+b2 -- no debconf information