On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, Nicholas Fleisher wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just upgraded to Aug 26 snapshot (amd64) and followed the current.html
> instructions, including deleting the old /usr/sbin/openssl. Upon
> trying to start X using startx, I got an error saying that the cookie
> couldn't be set because /usr/sbin/openssl couldn't be found. Changing
> /usr/sbin/openssl to /usr/bin/openssl manually in the script fixes the
> problem.
There is a possiblity that the X snapshots were lagging - the
usr/X11R6/bin/startx script in xshare56.tgz from my local mirror (Aug 28) has
the correct openssl path.
> I haven't tried recompiling from source, but I believe I've located
> the file that needs changing in the xenocara tree and have attached a
> diff. Others will know better than I if similar changes might need to
> be made elsewhere in the tree.
>
> Best,
> Nick
>
> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which
> had a name of patch]
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