Bug#642374: xauth: Doesn't seem to handle concurrency [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Package: xauth
Version: 1:1.0.6-1
Severity: normal
for run in `seq 1 10`
do
ssh -X -l <my user> <server> "xload" &
done
/usr/bin/xauth: error in locking authority file /home/<user>/.Xauthority
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
A sleep 0.1 though lets it through (most of the time, but like all
race conditions, this is a deeply evil hack). One suspects xauth
shouldn't just fail immediately if it can't hardlink the lockfile.
Act more like procmail's lockfile utility, and back off a bit while
retrying.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers oldstable
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'stable'), (5, 'testing'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages xauth depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.3-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-3 X11 authorisation library
ii libxext6 2:1.3.0-3 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxmuu1 2:1.1.0-2 X11 miscellaneous micro-utility li
xauth recommends no packages.
xauth suggests no packages.
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