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Enlightenment: 'cpufreq binary needs suid or has to be owned by root'

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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> pragmatique.xyz>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: Enlightenment: 'cpufreq binary needs suid or has to be owned by root'
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2017 15:03:23 +0000

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To reproduce (on an desktop computer):

Add enlightenment to your system config, reconfigure,
reboot, log in and click through the Enlightenment
first start dialogue (which itself reveals more bugs ;))
and the first message box you get after you completed
the first start dialogue and E21 has loaded is this:

Cpufreq Permissions Error

The freqset binary in the cpufreq module
is not owned by root or does not have the
setuid bit set. Please ensure this is the
case. For example:

sudo chown root /gnu/store/aaaaaaaaaaa-enlightenment-0.21.7/lib/enlightenment/modules/cpufreq/linux-gnu-x86_64-ver-0.21/freqset
sudo chmod u+s,a+x /gnu/store/aaaaaaaaaaa-enlightenment-0.21.7/lib/enlightenment/modules/cpufreq/linux-gnu-x86_64-ver-0.21/freqset




It seems like we need to have an 'enlightenment-service' similar to
xfce4 and gnome.

There's a number of dysfunctional features at the moment, I like to
track them all in related or unique bugs.
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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> pragmatique.xyz>
To: 27311 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
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Subject: Re: bug#27311: Acknowledgement (Enlightenment: 'cpufreq binary needs
 suid or has to be owned by root')
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 16:35:19 +0000

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It seems as if Nix has a solution to some of the problems I encounter
with Enlightenment. I'll try and fix most of the bugs I reported.
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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> pragmatique.xyz>
To: 27311 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27311: Acknowledgement (Enlightenment: 'cpufreq binary needs
 suid or has to be owned by root')
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2017 17:25:11 +0000

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> It seems as if Nix has a solution to some of the problems I encounter
> with Enlightenment. I'll try and fix most of the bugs I reported.

Nix solved this particular issue (cpufreq) with a hack.
It's okay for me, but do some of you agree with applying this:

  # this is a hack and without this cpufreq module is not working. does the following:
  #   1. moves the "freqset" binary to "e_freqset",
  #   2. linkes "e_freqset" to enlightenment/bin so that,
  #   3. wrappers.setuid detects it and places wrappers in /run/wrappers/bin/e_freqset,
  #   4. and finally, links /run/wrappers/bin/e_freqset to original destination where enlightenment wants it
  postInstall = ''
    export CPUFREQ_DIRPATH=`readlink -f $out/lib/enlightenment/modules/cpufreq/linux-gnu-*`;
    mv $CPUFREQ_DIRPATH/freqset $CPUFREQ_DIRPATH/e_freqset
    ln -sv $CPUFREQ_DIRPATH/e_freqset $out/bin/e_freqset
    ln -sv /run/wrappers/bin/e_freqset $CPUFREQ_DIRPATH/freqset
  '';


source: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/desktops/enlightenment/enlightenment.nix


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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>
To: ng0 <ng0 <at> pragmatique.xyz>
Cc: 27311 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27311: Acknowledgement (Enlightenment: 'cpufreq binary needs
 suid or has to be owned by root')
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 10:00:14 +0200

ng0 <ng0 <at> pragmatique.xyz> writes:

> Nix solved this particular issue (cpufreq) with a hack.
> It's okay for me, but do some of you agree with applying this:
>
>   # this is a hack and without this cpufreq module is not working. does the following:
>   #   1. moves the "freqset" binary to "e_freqset",
>   #   2. linkes "e_freqset" to enlightenment/bin so that,
>   #   3. wrappers.setuid detects it and places wrappers in /run/wrappers/bin/e_freqset,
>   #   4. and finally, links /run/wrappers/bin/e_freqset to original destination where enlightenment wants it
>   postInstall = ''
>     export CPUFREQ_DIRPATH=`readlink -f $out/lib/enlightenment/modules/cpufreq/linux-gnu-*`;
>     mv $CPUFREQ_DIRPATH/freqset $CPUFREQ_DIRPATH/e_freqset
>     ln -sv $CPUFREQ_DIRPATH/e_freqset $out/bin/e_freqset
>     ln -sv /run/wrappers/bin/e_freqset $CPUFREQ_DIRPATH/freqset
>   '';

No, we shouldn’t apply this hack.  Setuid binaries are declared
separately in the operating system configuration.  See section 6.2.8
Setuid Programs in the manual.

Packages cannot declare setuid binaries.

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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>
To: 27311-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#27311: Acknowledgement (Enlightenment: 'cpufreq binary needs
 suid or has to be owned by root')
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 12:44:40 +0300

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Turns out this one was fixed by 122f91bd413df1606a03050808ead4a7306101ef

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