Wayland hikari unable to drop root
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[deleted] · 2022-02-14 11:50

Hi there,

I’ m trying to switch to wayland and hikari but I have the error
‘Unable to drop root’. I installed wayland,wayland-protocol and seat
daemon, wlroots too. I’ m also tried to build from source.
I added seat to my rc.conf.
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is set to /tmp/1001-runtime-dir and chmod to 700. My
user is in group wheel and configured likr this in /etc/group.

captainchris:*:1001:/home/captainchris:/bin/bash

Do you have a solution please ??

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PreviousWay · 2022-02-14 13:52

I don't know that particular error, but are you also in video group?
and try chmod 777 instead.

Apart from that, if you build from source, did you set SUID config? I
think it should be off, not 100% sure, but if you install from pkg,
check what that one has set with pkg info.

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[deleted] · 2022-02-14 14:09

Ok I will try to setuid. I saw also that maybe a seatd problem.

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PreviousWay · 2022-02-14 18:06

I thought about it later and I think it should be not set/off. IIRC
suid set was the older way and now it's different since it uses seatd.
if you don't find a solution, try asking in their irc, it's quite
active and you should get a reply. details here

https://hikari.acmelabs.space/#community

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PreviousWay · 2022-02-14 18:24

p.s btw, your /etc/group looks weird. did you add your username to
wheel and video with `pw groupmod` ? that's the format of /etc/passwd
you posted

Also I just reinstalled the package and the message is a bit different
now and not so clear. To check, just add/start seatd to rc.conf, then
run hikari or with dbus (not with seatd command) `# dbus-launch --sh-
syntax --exit-with-session hikari`

p.s.s. additionally install pkg xcb (otherwise you get garbage
displayed in tty - although should not stop hikari from running)