Bug#319319: acknowledged by developer (Bug#302791: fixed in xscreensaver 4.24-1)

$ xscreensaver xscreensaver: couldn't setgroups to bartvh (1000): Operation not permitted xscreensaver: effective group list: [cdrom, audio, video, staff, plugdev, fuse, netdev, bartvh] $ dpkg -s xscreensaver | grep Version Version: 4.24-1 Note that the changelog mentions getgroups, whereas

Bug#319319: acknowledged by developer (Bug#302791: fixed in xscreensaver 4.24-1)

Hello, This new version (4.24-1) claims to have solved the problem of xscreensaver not starting due to a crash in getgroups(), and as such closed this bug. However, I still experience the same error on startup: $ xscreensaver xscreensaver: couldn't setgroups to bartvh (1000): Operation not permit