Xprint problem in latest Xfree4.1.0-6pre7v3

[Malte Cornils <malte@cornils.net>]

Hello,

I'm having a weird problem with the non-free StarOffice (5.2)
application which I assume is related to the new Xfree (or more
specifically, the xprt) package. StarOffice now doesn't start
anymore, while a few days before it worked fine. I've done an strace
-f and it goes into an infinite loop like this:

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[pid   621] select(8, [7], NULL, [7], {0, 10000} <unfinished ...>
[pid   638] <... time resumed> NULL)    = 1001867019
[pid   638] access("/home/mcornils/.Xpdefaults", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT
(No such file or directory)
[pid   638] access("/usr/local/office52/share/xp3/Xpdefaults", F_OK)
= 0
[pid   638] access("/usr/local/office52/share/xp3/Xpdefaults", W_OK)
= -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
[pid   638] stat64("/usr/local/office52/share/xp3/Xpdefaults",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2653, ...}) = 0
[pid   638] gettimeofday({1001867019, 359285}, NULL) = 0
[pid   638] gettimeofday({1001867019, 359338}, NULL) = 0
[pid   638] gettimeofday({1001867019, 359384}, NULL) = 0
[pid   638] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [RTMIN], 8) = 0
[pid   638] rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN], [RTMIN], 8) = 0
[pid   638] gettimeofday({1001867019, 359557}, NULL) = 0
[pid   638] nanosleep({2, 999774000},  <unfinished ...>
[pid   621] <... select resumed> )      = 0 (Timeout)
[pid   621] gettimeofday({1001867019, 371513}, NULL) = 0
[pid   621] sched_yield()               = 0
[pid   621] select(8, [7], NULL, [7], {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout)
[pid   621] gettimeofday({1001867019, 378925}, NULL) = 0
[pid   621] sched_yield()               = 0
[pid   621] select(8, [7], NULL, [7], {0, 10000}) = 0 (Timeout)
[pid   621] gettimeofday({1001867019, 389026}, NULL) = 0
[pid   621] sched_yield()               = 0
[... goes on for a while, gets back to the Xpdefaults lines
again...]
--cut--

Unfortunately, I don't have any further evidence of the problem
being caused by xprt except the file name. Also, I'm not exactly an
expert on system calls, I'm not sure what goes wrong here although I
suspect the select. 

Any ideas? Advice? Requests for more information? (well, this is
Debian sid with Brandens experimental packages; I'm trying to
downgrade to sid Xfree now. libc has been downgraded to 2.2.4-1 due
to the mozilla breakage, X is started via startx into plain X and
then startkde due to the xdm/kdm breakage)

Yours Malte #8-)