Bug#293042: vdr hangs with message cap_set_proc: Operation not permitted

[Thomas Schmidt]

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* Juhani Simola schrieb am 31.01.05, um 22:09 Uhr:
> When starting vdr, it prints the following error message:=20
> "cap_set_proc: Operation not permitted" and hangs.=20

This message is caused by a function which tries to change the userid
and the capabilities of the process, but this canonly work if root
calls vdr. (which is the case when you start vdr with the init-script)
I now changed the code to call this function only when vdr is called
by root, so the problem should not occur anymore with vdr 1.2.6-7. The
upload of the new package could take a while, because we will have to
wait at least until vdr 1.2.6-6 has entered testing, because 1.2.6-6
fixes a security related bug.


Regards,
Thomas

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Thomas Schmidt
thomas.schmidt@in.stud.tu-ilmenau.de

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