On Út, 2015-02-24 at 10:42 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi all,
Debugging this took me ages, so I thought I would share this with you,
with the new gdm on wayland landed in F-22 recently Xorg gets started
as a regular user.
This is a good thing as we want to move to Xorg running as a regular user,
but we're not 100% there yet, so currently Xorg is still suid-root, and
needs those root rights to function properly.
But when fips is enabled either on the kernel commandline or a /etc/system-fips
file exists one of the libraries X is using is dropping the root rights at
early library init and things fail.
So if X is not working for you all of a sudden, make sure you do not have
fips enabled on the kernel commandline, and remove any /etc/system-fips
file you may have.
This is unintended side-effect of running the FIPS selftest in the
libgcrypt constructor, we need to fix that. Please open a new bug
against libgcrypt so the bug fix is tracked.
--
Tomas Mraz
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
Turkish proverb
(You'll never know whether the road is wrong though.)