Bug#480882: ksmserver: startkde assumes local X server, breaks xterminals
Package: ksmserver
Version: 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2
Severity: important
The startscript supposed to start the kde session makes broken assumptions.
The scripts expects a local Xserver, which is false in Xterminal configurations where the xserver is on a remote device.
Kdesession startup is slow because the script does scary things (investigationg and configuring fonts and doing Xserver
manipulations.
Took us 3 days in a 20 user Xterminal situation to figure out, that a missing local xserver has caused breaks and login failures.
We got rid of most of the problems after installing a xserver on the headless hardware.
This whole script needs some overhaul.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages ksmserver depends on:
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-8etch1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii kwin [x-window-ma 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2 the KDE window manager
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libaudio2 1.8-4 The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.2.1-5+etch2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library
ii libice6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 0.6.5-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjpeg62 6b-13 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-4etch1 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 1:1.0.1-3 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 authorisation library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.7-4 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.1-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.8.2-8 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 1:1.0.1-4 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.1-4.1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.1.0.2-5 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.1-3 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.2-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii metacity [x-windo 1:2.14.5-4 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-13 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages ksmserver recommends:
ii kpersonalizer 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-6etch2 installation personalizer for KDE
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