Bug#618733: x11-common: startx as non-root no longer working

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 15:57:51 +0100, Arno Schuring wrote:

> Hi Julien,
> 
> Julien Cristau (jcristau@debian.org on 2011-03-18 10:53 +0100):
> >the -logfile option makes X drop privileges.
> Ah, that explains what the man page was trying to tell me. From the
> wording there, I had expected Xorg to bail out with an error, not
> silently drop privileges.
> 
> > Please provide the output of
> > - ls -l /usr/bin/X* /etc/X11/X /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
> > - cat /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      13 Dec  5  2009 /etc/X11/X -> /usr/bin/Xorg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     601 Mar 18 01:08 /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       6 Dec  5  2009 /usr/bin/X11 -> ../bin
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    2788 Nov  6 23:54 /usr/bin/XMLRPCsh
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1487944 Jan 12 04:50 /usr/bin/Xnest
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1774660 Feb 25 16:07 /usr/bin/Xorg
> 
you're missing /usr/bin/X?

Cheers,
Julien