xhost: unable to open display ":0"
%
Can xauth be made more robust, to make sure it do not kill my
.Xauthority file when I exceed my disk quota?
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If so, perhaps better to reassign it to KDE (the plasma-desktop version
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Package: xfree86-common
Version: 4.1.0-16
When the user tries to log in using kdm, and his home directory is
full, the user is thrown out to the login screen without any
explanation. I believe the user should get some kind of error message
displayed on the screen when this happen, to avoid confu
tags 179904 + patch
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Here is a tested patch to fix the problem. Please apply in the next
version of XFree86 for Debian.
Having X fail without any error message is a usability problem
confusing users and giving university support personel extra work. It
would be very nice if this could b
[Branden Robinson, 2003-04-30]
> Your patch is okay except that it also needs to check for and
> confirm the existence of the "xmessage" executable before trying to
> use it.
>
> I'll adapt it accordingly.
This bug was not closed by the upload of xfree86 4.2.1-7 done
2003-05-30. I was hoping thi
Package: xfree86-common
Version: 4.1.0-16
When the user tries to log in using kdm, and his home directory is
full, the user is thrown out to the login screen without any
explanation. I believe the user should get some kind of error message
displayed on the screen when this happen, to avoid confu
[Konstantinos Margaritis]
> * of all the conffiles.d, we only need xfree86-kbd, and probably
> kde(but updated for kde 3)
If possible, make sure the package work in Woody as well as in
Sarge/Sid.
> * ispell needs to be updated to new versions which are (I think)
> debconf base
Yes, some major r
[Konstantinos Margaritis]
> Ok, here is what i have now:
> conffiles.d/:
> sarge woody
Not sure if it is a good idea to hardcode in the names of debian
releases like that. The package should work also after sarge is
released, and a new version is being developed.
> It will read the /etc/debian_
[Konstantinos Margaritis]
> There is no reason why it should not work, after all, I can just add
> a new option for the next release.
Well, sure, you can keep adding new options all the time, but it will
be a maintenence problem keeping it correct and up to date.
> unpredictable ways? I don't rea
[Christian Perrier]
> As a way to circumvent this, I propose that we pre-seed
> xserver-xfree86 settings about keyboard, mostly
> "xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/model" and
> "xserver-xfree86/config/inputdevice/keyboard/layout" with appropriate
> values, depending on the chosen keyboar
[Branden Robinson, 2003-04-30]
> Your patch is okay except that it also needs to check for and
> confirm the existence of the "xmessage" executable before trying to
> use it.
>
> I'll adapt it accordingly.
This bug was not closed by the upload of xfree86 4.2.1-7 done
2003-05-30. I was hoping thi
[Christian Perrier]
> On the other hand, you may have suggestions for testing without all
> this (ie trying it on a normal system).
You can test it in a freshly built chroot (generated by debootstrap),
or run a test install in qemu and load the l-c package from a virtual
floppy before booting from
Package: xfree86-common
Version: 4.2.1-16
Severity: wishlist
In skolelinux, we would like to run a script when the users are
logging out, to do general cleanup. For this, it would be useful if
the display managers had hooks in Xreset we could use to have our
script executed.
Could you please
[Marc Wilson]
> What patch would you be adding against xdm, exactly, since xdm already
> knows how to do this quite well on its own?
Something like inserting a file with something like this:
#!/bin/sh
# Do xdm specific stuff here
# invoke global X reset script
. /etc/X11/Xreset
# Do mo
I just discovered that this problem also affect Debian Edu in Etch, as
we use dash as /bin/sh to avoid getting problems with libldap and bash
when /usr/ is on a separate partition.
It would be nice if this bug would get fixed in Etch as well as in
unstable. I'm not sure if it affects the behavio
This problem is actually in xresprobe, reported as bug #399586.
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Here is a proposed patch to fix this issue. It also updates the FSF
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--- xresprobe-0.4.23debian1/debian/copyright2005-03-11 20:21:55.0
+0100
+++ xresprobe-0.4.23debian1-0.1/debian/copyright
: #361086)
+ * Updated FSF address to quiet down lintian.
+ * Updated standards version from 3.6.1.0 to 3.7.2. No change needed.
+
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+
xresprobe (0.4.23debian1) unstable; urgency=low
* New release based in 0.4.23 r
[Brice Goglin]
> Petter, you submitted the patch adding this $named. Any idea about
> the following report?
Yes. I was mistaken and has learned a lot since then. It starts in
"runlevel" S, and name servers start in runlevel 2-5, so it can't
depend on $named.
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Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-5
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
When booting a thin client, there is a need to configure the font
server automatically at boot time. To make this happen, we preseed
the configuration at boot time, and call dexconf to g
Package: xserver-common
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Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
When booting live CDs and thin clients, there is a need to
(re)configure X automatically at boot time. To make this easier and
more convenient with the normal X packages, it would be nice if an
init.d script was provi
[Matt Zimmerman]
> As discussed with Petter previously, I don't think this is the right
> approach, and intend to maintain the existing mechanism where the
> LTSP init script configures X. I see no reason to split this logic
> over multiple packages.
The logic is already split across several pack
[Matt Zimmerman]
> They are all doing different things. The only common part is
> calling dpkg-reconfigure, and I don't mind one line of duplicate
> code in favor of adding a new init script to another package.
Well, as I see it, they all do the same thing, but in a different way.
All of them try
Package: x11-common
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9
Severity: wishlist
To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start
boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of
the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d
header file format usefu
Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9
Severity: wishlist
To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start
boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of
the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d
header file format use
Package: xdm
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9
Severity: wishlist
To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start
boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of
the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d
header file format useful for t
Package: xfs
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9
Severity: wishlist
To be able to check boot script order, and also to be able to start
boot scripts in parallel, it is important to know the dependencies of
the various boot scripts. The Linux Software Base specifies a init.d
header file format useful for t
[David MartÃnez Moreno]
> One question, Petter. I understand that this string "S 1 2 3 4 5"
> should be in sync with whatever you have in postinst scripts,
> shouldn't it?
Well, perhaps. :) Depends if you were able to express the intent of
the script with the lines in the postinst script.
The "S
Package: xserver-xorg
Version: 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7
Severity: important
Tags: patch
When trying to do to 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg' during the boot
of an LTSP thin client, the postinst fail because it tries to update
the /etc/X11/X symlink even though it already is pointing to the right
location.
[Philip Hands]
> Yeah, sill me --- discover and a couple of other things were forced on 1
> by me, by tacking them onto tasks/forcd1:
>
> discover
> kudzu
Why both kudzu and discover? I believe they do the same thing.
The package kudzu-vesa is another monitor detection package. It
contains dc
Package: xresprobe
Version: 0.4.16-1
Severity: important
File: /usr/sbin/ddcprobe
When I run ddcprobe on one of my machines, I do not get the result I
expect. xdebconfigurator used to work with the ddcprobe in woody, and
it is looking for lines like this:
ID: 4538
EISA ID: API4538
Scre
[Julien Cristau]
> You'll need to add a new system user in postinst, too.
Why must it have a new system user? I would expect nobody to be a
user with no privileges, and thus perfectly usable for this purpose?
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> Add "-user nobody -droppriv" to the xfs command line arguments.
Ah, right. This work better. Now the xfs process is running as user
nobody. This is the patch.
diff -ur xfs-1.0.6/debian/xfs.init xfs-1.0.6.pere/debian/xfs.init
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[Sven Joachim]
> Just FYI, I've been running xfs with this patch for the last few
> days and don't have any problems. Could this be uploaded to
> unstable to get xfs back into testing?
I can NMU if the maintainers do not have time to work on in soon.
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> Did not have time to rebuild xfs with debug symbols.
Here is valgrind with debug symbols:
# valgrind xfs
==8863== Memcheck, a memory error detector.
==8863== Copyright (C) 2002-2006, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==8863== Usin
/ after the Type1 entry. The file
do not have any CID entry, so the missing slash can't be added here. :)
I suspect this patch need to be merged into
./patches/02_debian_setup.diff.
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# Should-Start: xfs $named slapd
# Should-Stop: xfs $named slapd
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
-# Default-Stop: S 0 1 6
+# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
### END INIT INFO
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I just checked the boot order in unstable on a machine with dependency
based boot sequencing enabled, and discovered a problem with the
init.d scripts provided in the x11-common packa
see it in
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# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
+# Short-Description: Start/stop script for the X Font Server.
+# Description: For more information, see /usr/share/doc/xfs/README.Debian
+#or run: man xfs
### END INIT INFO
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: 0 bytes in 0 blocks.
==14613== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory.
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This means 4.44% of the debian population will loose a package they
have installed. Sound like a very bad idea to me.
I hope someone find time to work on this in time. Are the other
distributions running it as root, or can we fetch patches from redhat
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# Should-Stop: $network
+# X-Start-Before:gdm kdm xdm ldm sdm
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 1
# Short-Description: Start/stop script for the X Font Server.
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> a patch for this?
Would love to, but do not expect to have any spare time to spend on it
before Lenny is released. Sorry about that. Just got very little
time for free software these days. Hope it will improve in a few
month
to fix RC bug.
+ * Run xfs process as user nobody by default (Closes: #50859). Patch
+from Petter Reinholdtsen.
+ * Build with -DUSE_SYSLOG to get the syslog option to work, to avoid
+log rotation issue when xfs is running as a non-privileged
+user (Closes: 481758). Patch from Sven
I suspect this issue was really bug #422980, and that it is solved now.
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uses echo directly. usplash override
the functions in /lib/lsb/init-functions to feed the text into the
graphical boot screen, and thus depend on the use of the lsb output
functions.
Please change the init.d script to use the lsb output functions.
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this feature available in Squeeze?
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diff -urN xorg-7.5+3/debian/local/Xreset xorg-7.5+3-pere/debian/local/Xreset
--- xorg-7.5+3/debian/local/Xreset 1970-01-01 01:00:00.0 +0100
+++ xorg-7.5+3-pere/debian/local/Xreset 2010-02-26 09:49:13.0 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin
/etc/X11/Xreset
+fi
+
# Remove the utmp entry for the session.
if grep -qs '^use-sessreg' /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options \
&& which sessreg >/dev/null 2>&1; then
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retitle 117242 xdm: support /etc/X11/xdm/{Xsetup.d,Xstartup.d}
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The /etc/Xreset.d/ feature is implemented since version 1:1.1.9-1.
Removing it from the title of this bug.
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The attached patch get xresprobe / ddcprobe to build again. It make
it possible to keep it for Squeeze. The patch is tested on
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diff -ur xresprobe-0.4.23debian1/ddcprobe/lrmi.c
xresprobe-0.4.23debian1-pere/ddcprobe
is Coulson.
+
+ -- Petter Reinholdtsen Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:56:48 +0100
+
xresprobe (0.4.23debian1-0.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Non-maintainer upload with maintainer approval.
diff -u xresprobe-0.4.23debian1/debian/control
xresprobe-0.4.23debian1/debian/control
--- xresprobe-0.4.23debian1/debi
"
SEDLINE="s/(II) I810([^)]*): Size of device LFP (local flat panel) is \([^
]*\) x \([^ ]*\)/\1x\2/;"
getres
+elif [ "$DRIVER" = "intel" ]; then
+ EGREPLINE="\(II\) intel\(.*\): Output LVDS using initial mode .*x.*"
+ SEDLINE="s/(
#x27;ve been unable to find a useful replacement for probing the moditors
for DDC information (frequency range and proposed resolution).
ddccontrol and read-edid/get-edit are not good enough or providing the
same information.
Any proposals for working replacements for this use case?
Hap
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> KMS.
How do I use Kernel ModeSetting to print the DDC information from the
monitor in userspace? Google was not very helpfull. :)
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file in another package.
> Closing this bug since I didn't get any reply from the submitter
> after my ping a month ago. If anybody ever reproduces this problem,
> feel free to reopen.
Sorry for missing the ping.
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matter much either.
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dmi:*:svnVMWare*:*
This should suggest xserver-xorg-video-vmware when DMI report that the
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+Description: Added AppStream metainfo XML with hardware provide info.
+ This allow isenkram to propose this package when the virtual hardware
+ is present.
+Author: Petter Reinholdtsen
+Forwarded: no
+Last-Update: 2024-08-04
+---
+Index: xserver-xorg-video-vmware-13.3.0
roblem
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+ This allow isenkram to propose this package when the hardware is present.
+Author: Petter Reinholdtsen
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+Last-Update: 2024-08-04
+---
+Index: xserver-xorg-video-qxl-0.1.6/Makefile.am
+===
+--- xserver-xorg-video-qxl-0.1.6
hardware provide info.
+ This allow isenkram to propose this package when the relevant hardware is
+ present.
+Author: Petter Reinholdtsen
+Forwarded: no
+Last-Update: 2024-08-04
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+Index: xserver-xorg-input-evdev-2.10.6/Makefile.am
Dear xserver-xorg-video-qxl maintainers,
[Petter Reinholdtsen]
> Here is a patch to add Appstream metainfo XML announcing the hardware
> handled by this package.
It would be great if this package could join 116 other packages in
Debian and start announcing the hardware it support using App
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> on, which is generally best for tools as opposed to libraries.
Did any of you find time to look at the issue and patch provided in
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The following patch should get the package building again:
Description: Fix build problems with newer Xorg and compiler.
Ensure correct method and variable declaration to avoid fatal
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