On Sunday, February 16, 2025 8:53 AM, I wrote:
>> > echo $XAUTHORITY -> ~/.Xauthority
On Sunday, February 16, 2025 11:18 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> That should not *literally* be ~/.Xauthority of course.
Yes, the output is literally
/u/steve/.Xauthority
Going back decades, I always put users under /u (and listed that in
/etc/passwd) and in group 100 ("users" in /etc/group). Now I'm the only
active user. I keep /u because I probably have that built into some shell
files instead of "~".
Having said that, I do have a single user sktest, which I added during
bookworm installation, under /home. I set up the same fvwm and .xinitrc
initializations there and called startx. There was still no
/home/sktest/.xsession-errors, although I do see the code for it in
/etc/X11/Xsession.
> So... I wonder if your HOME directory's permissions are screwed up.
> What does ls -ld ~ give you? Might as well check all of them while
> we're at it: ls -ld / /home ~
For /u/steve,
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Feb 13 08:56 /
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 20 2022 /home
drwxr-xr-x 33 steve users 4096 Feb 16 12:54 /u/steve
For /home/sktest,
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Feb 13 08:56 /
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 20 2022 /home
drwxr-xr-x 7 sktest sktest 4096 Feb 16 12:54 /home/sktest
I see that sktest is the only member of group 1000 (sktest). All other users
(me and former users still listed) are in group 100 (users), which again goes
way back.
> Also, is there anything that looks like an xsession-$USER file in /tmp?
> Or any regular files in /tmp owned by you that have X session output
> in them?
No and no. Here's the output of "ls -a /tmp | egrep steve":
drwx------ 2 steve users 4096 Feb 16 10:31 acroread_1047_100
drwxr-xr-x 2 steve users 4096 Jan 9 13:40 hsperfdata_steve
-rw-r--r-- 1 steve users 0 Jan 19 13:23
qtsingleapp-smplay-ca73-417-lockfile
-rw------- 1 steve users 144 Feb 16 12:54 serverauth.vYofRhWUfe
drwx------ 2 steve users 4096 Feb 16 12:54
Temp-6400d4ac-eccd-4d88-981d-b4c9e8d1baf8
-r--r--r-- 1 steve users 11 Feb 16 12:54 .X0-lock
Now for evince. If I call it from sktest's window (but not from steve's), I
get these errors:
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
libGL error: glx: failed to create dri3 screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: i915
libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
libGL error: glx: failed to create dri2 screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: i915
After this, these new lines are added to the output of "journalctl --user -b -e"
Feb 16 12:52:53 drx dbus-daemon[1338857]: [session uid=1000 pid=1338857]
Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.portal.Desktop'
unit='xdg-desktop-portal.service' requested by ':1.36' (uid=1000 pid=1342515
comm="evince")
Feb 16 12:52:53 drx systemd[1338834]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal.service -
Portal service...
Feb 16 12:52:53 drx dbus-daemon[1338857]: [session uid=1000 pid=1338857]
Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gtk'
unit='xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service' requested by ':1.37' (uid=1000
pid=1342519 comm="/usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal")
Feb 16 12:52:53 drx systemd[1338834]: Starting xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service -
Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation)...
Feb 16 12:52:53 drx xdg-desktop-por[1342523]: cannot open display:
Feb 16 12:52:53 drx systemd[1338834]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Main
process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Feb 16 12:52:53 drx systemd[1338834]: xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service: Failed
with result 'exit-code'.
Feb 16 12:52:53 drx systemd[1338834]: Failed to start
xdg-desktop-portal-gtk.service - Portal service (GTK/GNOME implementation).
If I try evince a second time, these lines are added:
Feb 16 12:53:43 drx xdg-desktop-por[1342519]: Failed to create settings proxy:
Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.impl.portal.desktop.gtk:
Timeout was reached
Feb 16 12:53:43 drx xdg-desktop-por[1342519]: No skeleton to export
As I mentioned earlier, calling evince as steve causes different errors
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified
Cannot parse arguments: Cannot open display:
and no new lines in the output of "journalctl --user -b -e".
Thanks. Sorry for the non-standard parts of my configuration. I have never
felt they were a problem, but they do have an effect here.
________________________________________
From: Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2025 11:18 AM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)
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On Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 13:53:21 +0000, Kleene, Steven (kleenesj) wrote:
> echo $DISPLAY -> :0
> xhost -> access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect
>
> > echo $XAUTHORITY
> >
> > The last usually points to ~/.Xauthority.
>
> echo $XAUTHORITY -> ~/.Xauthority
That should not *literally* be ~/.Xauthority of course.
hobbit:~$ declare -p XAUTHORITY
declare -x XAUTHORITY="/home/greg/.Xauthority"
> I do not have ~/.xsession-errors.
Well now, *that* is quite strange.
One of the things that the Debian /etc/X11/Xsession script does is this:
ERRFILE=$HOME/.xsession-errors
[...]
# attempt to create an error file; abort if we cannot
if (umask 077 && touch "$ERRFILE") 2> /dev/null && [ -w "$ERRFILE" ] &&
[ ! -L "$ERRFILE" ]; then
chmod 600 "$ERRFILE"
elif ERRFILE=$(mktemp 2> /dev/null); then
if ! ln -sf "$ERRFILE" "${TMPDIR:=/tmp}/xsession-$USER"; then
message "warning: unable to symlink \"$TMPDIR/xsession-$USER\" to" \
"\"$ERRFILE\"; look for session log/errors in" \
"\"$TMPDIR/xsession-$USER\"."
fi
else
errormsg "unable to create X session log/error file; aborting."
fi
So... I wonder if your HOME directory's permissions are screwed up.
What does ls -ld ~ give you? Might as well check all of them while
we're at it: ls -ld / /home ~
Here, I'll start:
hobbit:~$ ls -ld / /home ~
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Feb 9 09:03 //
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 17 2024 /home/
drwxr-xr-x 231 greg greg 65536 Feb 16 11:15 /home/greg/
Also, is there anything that looks like an xsession-$USER file in /tmp?
Or any regular files in /tmp owned by you that have X session output
in them?
