Control: tags -1 pending Am 20.07.2017 um 18:00 schrieb Sven Joachim:
> Control: found -1 xorg-server/1:1.0.2-6 > > Am 19.07.2017 um 14:09 schrieb Frank Doepper: > >> Package: xvfb >> Version: 2:1.12.4-6+deb7u7 >> Severity: normal >> Tags: patch >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> * What led up to the situation? >> >> running >> xvfb-run -a --server-args="-screen 0, 2048x1536x24" /usr/bin/wkhtmltopdf $* >> >> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or >> ineffective)? >> >> wkhtmltopdf outputs its result to stdout and other things to stderr >> >> * What was the outcome of this action? >> >> the data on the output was broken >> >> * What outcome did you expect instead? >> >> a usable output of the called program, which is not mixed up with >> stderr. >> >> Removing the 2>&1 from the exec line in xfvb-run solves this. >> >> --- /usr/bin/xvfb-run 2017-07-07 07:09:57.000000000 +0200 >> +++ - 2017-07-19 14:07:29.727690002 +0200 >> @@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ >> >> # Start the command and save its exit status. >> set +e >> -DISPLAY=:$SERVERNUM XAUTHORITY=$AUTHFILE "$@" 2>&1 >> +DISPLAY=:$SERVERNUM XAUTHORITY=$AUTHFILE "$@" >> RETVAL=$? >> set -e > > Makes sense. FWIW, the bug has also been reported in Ubuntu a few years > ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1059947. > > I did some research on snapshot.debian.org, and it seems this mixing of > stderr and stdout has always been there since the xvfb-run script was > added to the xvfb package. > > I'll commit the patch to git in a few days, unless somebody objects or > beats me to it. Done that now, but it will take two almost years before it appears in a stable Debian release, so if you continue to use oldoldstable you will have to keep modifying xvfb-run locally for a while. ;-) Cheers, Sven
