From: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>
To: Matthew Brooks <matthewfbrooks@mailbox.org>
Cc: 34630@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34630: slock: unable to disable OOM killer. Make sure to suid or sgid slock.
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2019 16:28:35 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ftsdsqkc.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190223021014.5f9dfa19@mailbox.org>
Hey Matthew,
I have successfully used slock on a Guix system, but I haven't
tried using the Guix slock on a foreign distribution. I would
expect it to not work, and the error message gives us an idea why:
> When using the guix installed slock, it doesn't lock the screen,
> and errors with the following error: "slock: unable to disable
> OOM killer. Make sure to suid or sgid slock."
None of the programs in the Guix store (ie. /gnu/store) will have
setuid or setgid set. On a Guix system you can install a slock
screen-locker-service, which will provide a setuid binary for
slock (via the setuid-program-service). This is done automatically
as part of the default %desktop-services. I don't know of a way to
do this on a foreign distribution.
Carlo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-24 5:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-23 8:10 bug#34630: slock: unable to disable OOM killer. Make sure to suid or sgid slock Matthew Brooks
2019-02-24 5:28 ` Carlo Zancanaro [this message]
2019-02-24 21:53 ` Leo Famulari
2019-02-25 6:20 ` Matthew Brooks
2019-02-25 15:46 ` Leo Famulari
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