Bug#617208: Fails if started by init
On 2011-03-08 11:31:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> [adding Thomas to Cc, as this concerns xterm]
>
> FYI, libxt/1:1.1.0-1 also breaks xterm: XAUTHORITY is removed from the
> environment, meaning that I can no longer start X applications from
> xterm when gdm3 is used. As libxt/1:1.1.0-2 fixes the problem (which
> appeared with the upgrade to libxt/1:1.1.0-1) and other terminals
> didn't have any problem, I assume this is the same bug.
Actually, not just XAUTHORITY, as $PATH was affected too
("xterm -e some_command" started by fvwm output an error
message saying that some_command couldn't be found), and
I suspect that the whole environment was removed or something
similar.
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