Bug#617208: Fails if started by init

2011-03-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-03-08 14:48:12 -0500, John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell wrote: > hi I wrote www.sourceforge.net/projects/xdm-options/ > > one reason I've used xdm for so long is that having my environment in xterm > was more important to me than how X got started > > I think the C-coded display manage

Bug#617208: Fails if started by init

2011-03-08 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
hi I wrote www.sourceforge.net/projects/xdm-options/ one reason I've used xdm for so long is that having my environment in xterm was more important to me than how X got started I think the C-coded display managers out there don't bother with /etc/profile or ~/.profile like a login should - bu

Bug#617208: Fails if started by init

2011-03-08 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
if you don't mind my butting in I notice when I start gdm xdm has *no* environment. I have no comment on whether this or that app uses that particular env. var. though. Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2011-03-08 11:31:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: [adding Thomas to Cc, as this concerns xterm]

Bug#617208: Fails if started by init

2011-03-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Vincent Lefevre (08/03/2011): > Note that the command in question is in my $HOME/bin, thus not in > the default $PATH. Oh, OK. > […] and rebuilt libxt6 again, and the problem was solved. So, I > confirm that the problem was due to this memory corruption. Thanks for checking. KiBi. signature.

Bug#617208: Fails if started by init

2011-03-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-03-08 16:16:24 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Vincent Lefevre (08/03/2011): > > On 2011-03-08 11:31:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > [adding Thomas to Cc, as this concerns xterm] > > only remotely. Yes, just in case Thomas got bug reports because of this. > Probably that

Bug#617208: Fails if started by init

2011-03-08 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Vincent Lefevre (08/03/2011): > On 2011-03-08 11:31:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > [adding Thomas to Cc, as this concerns xterm] only remotely. Probably that stupid libxt memory corruption: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.devel/19675 > Actually, not just XAUTHOR

Bug#617208: Fails if started by init

2011-03-08 Thread Anthony L. Awtrey
Hi there, This issue was originally reported against version 1:1.1.10-3. It was reported fixed two days ago in version 1:1.1.0-2 which makes no sense to me considering that oldstable is 1.1.8-5 and stable/unstable is 1.1.10-3. I'm still seeing this issue this morning. Thanks! Tony -- To UNSUB

Bug#617208: Fails if started by init

2011-03-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2011-03-08 11:31:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > [adding Thomas to Cc, as this concerns xterm] > > FYI, libxt/1:1.1.0-1 also breaks xterm: XAUTHORITY is removed from the > environment, meaning that I can no longer start X applications from > xterm when gdm3 is used. As libxt/1:1.1.0-2 fixes

Bug#617208: Fails if started by init

2011-03-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
[adding Thomas to Cc, as this concerns xterm] FYI, libxt/1:1.1.0-1 also breaks xterm: XAUTHORITY is removed from the environment, meaning that I can no longer start X applications from xterm when gdm3 is used. As libxt/1:1.1.0-2 fixes the problem (which appeared with the upgrade to libxt/1:1.1.0-1