Bug#1028029: xscreensaver: contains non-free fonts

2023-01-28 Thread Jamie Zawinski
On Jan 6, 2023, at 1:50 AM, Bastian Germann wrote: > > But there is a version available at > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ocr-a-font/ that might be free. > You can certainly replace it. This one seems better than that one: https://tsukurimashou.osdn.jp/ocr.php.en Annoyingly, the name chang

Bug#1028029: xscreensaver: contains non-free fonts

2023-01-05 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Correction, Gallant is in fact BSD licensed: http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/src/sys/dev/wsfont/gallant12x22.h

Bug#1028029: xscreensaver: contains non-free fonts

2023-01-05 Thread Jamie Zawinski
False. Luxi Mono is from Red Hat, I'm sure you've heard of them. OCRA is an ANSI Standard, and is public domain. Gallant is a reproduction of the Sun font created by Joshua M. Clulow and released, as far as I am aware, into the public domain.

Bug#987149: xscreensaver: allows starting external programs with cap_net_raw

2021-04-18 Thread Jamie Zawinski
As I said, it's already fixed in 6.00. The fix is just to configure without setcap and use setuid instead, which works properly with Mesa. I assume that having 6.00 distributed by Debian prior to 2035 would be asking too much, but we dare to dream.

Bug#987149: xscreensaver: allows starting external programs with cap_net_raw

2021-04-18 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Already fixed in XScreenSaver 6.00. The bug is in Mesa: it has a panoply of env vars that do what LD_PRELOAD does, except Mesa only checks geteuid instead of checking getauxval AT_SECURE, as the kernel does. So anything that uses both Mesa and setcap is vulnerable. Ironically, using setuid ins

Bug#979562: lightdm session termination does not stop xscreensaver

2021-01-11 Thread Jamie Zawinski
.0 3748 664 pts/0S+ 21:56 0:00 grep saver Note that pid 11997 does not have -nosplash on its command line. -- Jamie Zawinski https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.dnalounge.com/

Bug#979562: lightdm session termination does not stop xscreensaver

2021-01-10 Thread Jamie Zawinski
nd user B. If things have gone wrong in a weird way, the "xscreensaver-systemd" process of user A might linger, but it won't be able to communicate with user B's xscreensaver. -- Jamie Zawinski https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.dnalounge.com/

Bug#979562: lightdm session termination does not stop xscreensaver

2021-01-10 Thread Jamie Zawinski
dministrator installed xscreensaver on a multi-user system, the expectation would be for it to run in all graphical login sessions. -- Jamie Zawinski https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.dnalounge.com/

Bug#979562: lightdm session termination does not stop xscreensaver

2021-01-08 Thread Jamie Zawinski
> In xscreensaver (or maybe lightdm). > Why is xscreensaver started in the lightdm session anyway? > Is xscreensaver really usable as a per user service or should it be per > session? > Why is the lightdm xscreensaver instance interfering with the xscreensaver > instance of the logged in user? >

Bug#953098: xscreensaver: Crashes with XIO: fatal IO error

2020-03-24 Thread Jamie Zawinski
For best logging: xscreensaver -verbose -log log.txt

Bug#953098: xscreensaver: Crashes with XIO: fatal IO error

2020-03-14 Thread Jamie Zawinski
As far as I know, an XIO error means the X server dropped the connection to the xscreensaver client. So either the X server itself crashed, or it decided to disconnect xscreensaver for some unknown reason. If the client had done something wrong, X11-protocol-wise, this would have been a more v

Bug#876087: xscreensaver: source-less and unlicensed code at hacks/images/m6502/dmsc.asm

2017-09-18 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Oh FFS, the pedantry of you people knows no bounds. It's not even a *real emulator*. Did you even try emailing him? -- Jamie Zawinski https://www.jwz.org/ https://www.dnalounge.com/

Bug#873108: xscreensaver does not trap errors from intltool-update

2017-08-24 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Well, on every system I've ever had access to, intltool rarely works, so I took to just ignoring it entirely. YMMV.

Bug#757448: xscreensaver-data-extra included non-free contents.

2014-08-08 Thread Jamie Zawinski
It's all fair use, and you're a pinhead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#625770: xscreensaver: Corrupted unlock dialogs on dual head hardlocking machine randomly

2011-05-05 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Driver bug, not xscreensaver. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Bug#595273: If xscreensaver child dies, screen is deadlocked

2010-09-02 Thread Jamie Zawinski
On Sep 2, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Yves Lambert wrote: > It looks like when xscreensaver child dies, xscreensaver does not > launch another child and the keyboard is locked, only magic keys still > works, no way to switch to another VT. This statement makes no sense to me at all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#594728: xscreensaver crashes leaving screen unlocked

2010-08-28 Thread Jamie Zawinski
That's a new one... Yes, -sync will probably help, as will a core file stack trace. I suspect we will discover that some sub-process launched by your PAM stack is crashing and taking libpam with it. That line about an unknown process dying means that we got a SIGCHLD for a pid that xscreensaver

Bug#566984: closed by "Jose Luis Rivas" (reply to josel...@rivco.net) (Re: Bug#566984: xscreensaver: screensaver only shows a blackscreen instead of the actual animation)

2010-01-27 Thread Jamie Zawinski
If the problem here is that you launched xscreensaver-demo while gnome-screensaver was running but xscreensaver was not, then you should have gotten a dialog box saying exactly that, and offering to shut down gnome-screensaver, instead of simply saying that xscreensaver was not running. See dr

Bug#482385: xscreensaver and RANDR

2008-07-05 Thread Jamie Zawinski
KP_Minus.) There is a bug if: - It ever crashes (obviously!) - There is ever a situation where a screen is not completely covered by the xscreensaver windows. (Unless two screens are configured to overlap). Thanks! -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Bug#482385: xscreensaver disappears (segfaults/aborts?) when xrandr is used.

2008-06-27 Thread Jamie Zawinski
interact with each other. I'm not about to buy a new computer just for this. -- Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dnalounge.com/ http://jwz.livejou

Bug#482385: xscreensaver disappears (segfaults/aborts?) when xrandr is used.

2008-06-14 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Did you test what happens if nscreens remains 0 for some length of time, e.g., through another idle cycle? I'm guessing the answer is "nothing good"... It's hard to tell just by looking at it, but I suspect that, for example, with that change it's going to be running hacks on screens tha

Bug#471920: xscreensaver: Crash at startup

2008-04-03 Thread Jamie Zawinski
I think this is fixed by the patch in bug 473681? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#469099: xscreensaver: Package split leaves non-working screensavers in KDE configuration

2008-03-03 Thread Jamie Zawinski
On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Tormod Volden wrote: Believe me, the reason for the package split is exactly to make things easier for third-party screensaver infrastructures (like gnome-screensaver and kscreensaver), so that they can use xscreensaver hacks without the user having xscreensaver inst

Bug#450907: xscreensaver: fireworxx shows live screen contents when xcompmgr is running

2007-11-14 Thread Jamie Zawinski
Obviously, fireworkx should not be showing a transparent background. Equally obviously, this is not a bug in xscreensaver. It's a bug in the X server, or in some lower layer like the video driver. You should reassign this. Is fireworkx the only OpenGL saver that provokes this bug? --

Bug#448157: CVE-2007-5585 authentication bypass (FTBFS with patch)

2007-11-05 Thread Jamie Zawinski
On Nov 5, 2007, at 4:11 PM, Steffen Joeris wrote: With this patch, xscreensaver fails to build: Sorry, typo: pw->prompt_screen should have been pw->prompt_screen- >screen. Revised patch: diff -u -r1.85 lock.c --- lock.c 10 Jul 2007 20:27:24 - 1.85 +++ lock.c 1 Nov 2007

Bug#448157: CVE-2007-5585 authentication bypass

2007-11-01 Thread Jamie Zawinski
I don't understand how xscreensaver-gl-helper not being installed could cause this sort of thing. However, this does sound vaguely like another bug: can one of you who is able to reproduce the problem try this patch and let me know if it works? Thanks... diff -u -r1.85 lock.c --- lock.c

Bug#433964: possible security problem with xscreensaver

2007-07-20 Thread Jamie Zawinski
That patch is already included in 5.03. But you people are still shipping 4.24, which is nearly eighteen months old. I really wish you'd upgrade already. Also, it is damned near impossible to exploit that. For it to be a problem, the attacker needs to have already compromised either the