Debian Bug report logs - #861683
Install xserver-xorg-legacy by default for stretch

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Install xserver-xorg-legacy by default for stretch

Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 19:39:37 +0200

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

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Message #12 received at 861683@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: 861587@bugs.debian.org, Gerardo Flores <ger.flores@gmail.com>, 861683@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Package: installation-reports GNOME is not Working

Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 21:48:09 +0200

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On Mon, 1 May 2017 00:28:59 -0500 Gerardo Flores <ger.flores@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Package:installation-reports
> Boot method: <Cómo arrancó la instalación? ¿Con un CD?: netistall.iso (Virtual box)
> 
> Image version: <Escriba la fecha y desde donde obtuvo la imagen>
> RC3
> Date: Abril 29 20717
> Machine: Virtual BOX DELL Presicion and Lenovo X230
> Processor: Xeon / icore 7
> Memory: En la virtual 2G / Virtual 2GB
> Partitions: Basicos en una sola partición LVM
> 
> Output of lspci -knn (o lspci -nn): <Salida de la orden «lspci -knn» (o «lspci -nn»)>
> 
> Base System Installation Checklist: <Marque según sea su caso: Escriba «O»
>      si dicha fase funcionó, «E» si presentó algún fallo y déjela en blanco si
>      no intentó o no usó esta opción.>
> [O] = OK, [E] = Error (descríbalo a continuación), [ ] = didn't try it
> 
> Initial boot:           [E] <¿Funcionó el arranque inicial?>
> Detect network card:    [O] <¿Se configuró el hardware de red?>
> Configure network:      [O] <¿Se configuró la red?>
> Detect CD:              [O] <¿Se detectó la unidad de CD?>
> Load installer modules: [O] <¿Se cargaron los módulos del instalador?>
> Detect hard drives:     [O] <¿Se detectaron los discos duros?>
> Partition hard drives:  [O] <¿Se particionó el disco duro?>
> Install base system:    [O] <¿Se instaló el sistema base?>
> Clock/timezone setup:   [O] <¿Se configuró bien la zona horaria?>
> User/password setup:    [O] <¿Se configuró correctamente el usuario?>
> Install tasks:          [O] <¿Se instalaron bien las tareas?>
> Install boot loader:    [O] <¿Se instaló el gestor de arranque?>
> Overall install:        [E] <¿Reinició correctamente?>
> 
> Comments/Problems:
> 
> Hi, I am writing because you have tried to install Debian 9 for a month, on two different computers with virtual box. And I can not put Gnome. In the installation on a computer I get a red screen. So I just put the base system without graphical environment and then try to install the gnome, the next reboot will not boot. On any of the other desktops no problem is installed. Then
>  I continued testing on different computers and different configurations
>  and continued with the problem I was not allowed to install gnome on 
> reboot after the computer does not boot. And in any desktop without problem and also with only text I have problem only happens with gnome.
> Sorry for my english, in fact I'm using google translator. I hope it helps them to have a shiny Debian, as always. And while happy with my Jessie it works phenomenally :)

Most likely a duplicate of

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=861683
seeing that you installed this system using Virtualbox



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Message #17 received at 861683-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>

To: 861683-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#861683: fixed in xorg 1:7.7+19

Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 10:04:05 +0000

Source: xorg
Source-Version: 1:7.7+19

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xorg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 861683@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> (supplier of updated xorg package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 11:38:16 +0200
Source: xorg
Binary: x11-common xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-video-all xserver-xorg-input-all xorg xorg-dev xbase-clients xutils
Architecture: source
Version: 1:7.7+19
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Debian X Strike Force <debian-x@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
Description:
 x11-common - X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
 xbase-clients - miscellaneous X clients - metapackage
 xorg       - X.Org X Window System
 xorg-dev   - X.Org X Window System development libraries
 xserver-xorg - X.Org X server
 xserver-xorg-input-all - X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
 xserver-xorg-video-all - X.Org X server -- output driver metapackage
 xutils     - X Window System utility programs metapackage
Closes: 861683
Changes:
 xorg (1:7.7+19) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * Team upload.
   * xserver-xorg now Recommends xserver-xorg-legacy, we'd have liked to avoid
     installing the setuid Xorg wrapper by default in stretch, but this seems
     to break too much still (closes: #861683).
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Message #26 received at 861683@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

Cc: 861683@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Install xserver-xorg-legacy by default for stretch

Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 07:32:13 +0200

On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:39:37PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Same is true for users of startx. They need the suid wrapper provided by
> xserver-xorg-legacy in such a case.

That's not true. I use the text mode console nearly all the time and only 
start X as needed via startx, that works fine without the setuid wrapper.

Cheers,
        Moritz

Message #31 received at 861683@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

To: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

Cc: 861683@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Install xserver-xorg-legacy by default for stretch

Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 13:40:42 +0200

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Am 10.05.2017 um 07:32 schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:
> On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:39:37PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Same is true for users of startx. They need the suid wrapper provided by
>> xserver-xorg-legacy in such a case.

such a case == a non-KMS driver being in use.

> That's not true. I use the text mode console nearly all the time and only 
> start X as needed via startx, that works fine without the setuid wrapper.

What driver do you use?


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Message #36 received at 861683@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>

To: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>

Cc: 861683@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Install xserver-xorg-legacy by default for stretch

Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 17:06:10 +0200

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 01:40:42PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 10.05.2017 um 07:32 schrieb Moritz Muehlenhoff:
> > On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:39:37PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> Same is true for users of startx. They need the suid wrapper provided by
> >> xserver-xorg-legacy in such a case.
> 
> such a case == a non-KMS driver being in use.
> 
> > That's not true. I use the text mode console nearly all the time and only 
> > start X as needed via startx, that works fine without the setuid wrapper.
> 
> What driver do you use?

I'm using the Intel driver. I thought you wanted to state that startx in 
general requires the legacy wrapper. Of course, the legacy driver is required
with a non-KMS driver in any case.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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