On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 09:53:33AM -0400, Jason Cohen wrote: > Per Bug #861683, xserver-xorg-legacy is a "recommend" for xserver-xorg, and > as such, is likely to be installed by default.
Because some hardware chipsets require it. > Section 2.2.10 of the Debian Stretch Release Notes indicates that Xorg will > now run as a non-root user for most setups, indicating 3 requirements for > this to function correctly. Mm hmm. > However, there is no mention of the need to remove xserver-xorg-legacy. There isn't, at least on my chipset. wooledg:~$ pgrep X 3079 wooledg:~$ ps -fp 3079 UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD wooledg 3079 3078 0 Jul07 tty1 00:08:24 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg -nolisten tcp wooledg:~$ dpkg -l xserver-xorg-legacy Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-==============-============-============-================================= ii xserver-xorg-l 2:1.19.2-1+d amd64 setuid root Xorg server wrapper -legacy is installed, but it isn't used by this chipset. 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 [8086:1912] (rev 06) > 3) GDM3 is used as the display manager (if X is started from the DM) > > However, after spending 30 minutes trying to figure out why a newly > installed Debian Stretch system refused to start Xorg as a regular user, > I realized it was *also* necessary to remove xserver-xorg-legacy (I > didn't realize this package was installed). Oh, are you using gdm3? I'm not. I'm using startx. > This is not > documented in the Release Notes or at https://wiki.debian.org/Xorg. > Rather, the release notes gives the strong impression that the > aforementioned items are sufficient to ensure Xorg will not run as root. So... are you saying that you use gdm3, and your X server is started as root if -legacy is installed, and started as non-root if -legacy is not installed? Out of curiosity, what graphics chipset is it?
