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| From | Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.devel.testing |
| Subject | Bug#803667: upgrade-reports: No Xorg: "no screens found(EE)" |
| Date | 2015-11-07 18:30 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <qsfto-5fs-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <qq3mG-27l-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <qs6Jr-88V-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 11/06/2015 11:56 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: > Thanks for giving this some time Neils, it would be a shame if I had to stop using Debian due to this bug. > Hi Ray, > > Are you using the setuid version of X11 or the new non-setuid version? > And in the latter case, do you have libpam-systemd installed? Yes, and reinstalled with no change. > > Possibly related information: >> xorg-server (2:1.17.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium >> >> The Xorg server is no longer setuid root by default. This change >> reduces the >> risk of privilege escalation due to X server bugs, but has some side >> effects: >> >> * it relies on logind and libpam-systemd >> * it relies on a kernel video driver (so the userspace component doesn't >> touch the hardware directly) >> * it needs X to run on the virtual console (VT) it was started from >> * it changes the location for storing the Xorg log from /var/log/ to >> ~/.local/share/xorg/ >> >> On systems where those are not available, the new xserver-xorg-legacy >> package >> is needed to allow X to run with elevated privileges. See the >> Xwrapper.config(5) manual page for configuration details. >> >> -- Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> Tue, 27 Oct 2015 22:54:11 Everything there reinstalled too, but no joy. I wonder if I can move away from 'legacy' entirely?
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