Bug#429609: root-tail problems with xserver-xorg-core 1.3

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Leandro Penz wrote:
> I narrowed it down to the following upgrade:
> [UPGRADE] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.1.1-21 -> 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-11
>
> After that, root-tail stoped working. That was the only package I
> upgraded in that session. Then, I downgraded it again:
> [DOWNGRADE] xserver-xorg-core 2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-11 -> 2:1.1.1-21
> And root-tail worked again.
>
> I tried the free nv driver, both the stable (1.2.0-3) and testing
> version (1:2.1.2) with xserver-xorg-core 2:1.3.0 and got the same results.

Are you sure you removed all the nvidia stuff when trying with the free
nv driver? I never tried nvidia-glx myself, but there might be some
nvidia specific libs that divert the regular Xorg libs. I don't know if
they could cause problems when still installed while using the free nv
driver.

Anyway, I still can't reproduce it here, on both ati and intel free
drivers, so the problem still looks kind of driver-specific to me. The
nvidia binary driver had a couple known minor incompatibilities with
Xserver 1.3...

Brice