Bug#540932: marked as done (xserver-wrapper: bogus output to stderr before X is started)
Your message dated Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:57:50 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#540932: xserver-wrapper: bogus output to stderr before X is started
has caused the Debian Bug report #540932,
regarding xserver-wrapper: bogus output to stderr before X is started
to be marked as done.
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Package: xorg
Version: 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
Severity: important
If the X binary wrapper runs into problems when nicing the X process, it will
spew disruptive messages to stderr that cause interaction problems with
whatever tried to invoke X. For example, the proper behaviour of the X
'-showDefaultModulePath' commandline argument is to output a path to stderr.
With the wrapper, situations like that might happen:
# /usr/bin/X -showDefaultModulePath
X: warning; process set to priority -2 instead of requested priority 0
/usr/lib/xorg/modules
It also causes '-showDefaultModulePath' to be unusable by a non-privileged
user.
See also: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=137104.
Thanks,
- Pierre-Loup
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers jaunty-updates
APT policy: (500, 'jaunty-updates'), (500, 'jaunty-security'), (500, 'jaunty')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xorg depends on:
ii gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.26.0-0ubuntu2 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii konsole [x-terminal-emu 4:4.2.2-0ubuntu4 X terminal emulator for KDE 4
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1 7.4-0ubuntu3.1 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglu1-mesa 7.4-0ubuntu3.1 The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
ii x11-apps 7.3+4 X applications
ii x11-common 1:7.4~5ubuntu18 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii x11-session-utils 7.3+1 X session utilities
ii x11-utils 7.4+1build1 X11 utilities
ii x11-xfs-utils 7.4+1build1 X font server utilities
ii x11-xkb-utils 7.4+1ubuntu2 X11 XKB utilities
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.4+1 X server utilities
ii xauth 1:1.0.3-2 X authentication utility
ii xfonts-100dpi 1:1.0.0-4 100 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-75dpi 1:1.0.0-4 75 dpi fonts for X
ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.0-5 standard fonts for X
ii xfonts-utils 1:7.4+1ubuntu1 X Window System font utility progr
ii xinit 1.0.9-2 X server initialisation tool
ii xinput 1.4.0-1 Runtime configuration and test of
ii xkb-data 1.5-2ubuntu11 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu18 the X.Org X server
ii xterm [x-terminal-emula 241-1ubuntu1 X terminal emulator
Versions of packages xorg recommends:
ii xfonts-scalable 1:1.0.0-6ubuntu0.8.04.1 scalable fonts for X
Versions of packages xorg suggests:
pn xorg-docs <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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Version: 1:7.4+2
Hi Pierre-Loup,
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 23:24:11 +0200, Pierre-Loup A. Griffais wrote:
> Package: xorg
> Version: 1:7.4~5ubuntu18
this isn't a debian package version ;)
> Severity: important
>
> If the X binary wrapper runs into problems when nicing the X process, it will
> spew disruptive messages to stderr that cause interaction problems with
> whatever tried to invoke X. For example, the proper behaviour of the X
> '-showDefaultModulePath' commandline argument is to output a path to stderr.
> With the wrapper, situations like that might happen:
>
> # /usr/bin/X -showDefaultModulePath
> X: warning; process set to priority -2 instead of requested priority 0
> /usr/lib/xorg/modules
>
> It also causes '-showDefaultModulePath' to be unusable by a non-privileged
> user.
>
> See also: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=137104.
>
I removed this code a while back, see
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-xorg/debian/xorg.git;a=commitdiff;h=bb0eb90d5236012ed95f2915ac7212a5aaffdf93
Cheers,
Julien
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