Bug#697485: xvfb: example in Xvfb(1) does not work

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>]

Package: xvfb
Version: 2:1.12.4-4
Severity: normal

Xvfb(1) says:

EXAMPLES
       Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1600x1200x32
               The server will listen for connections as server number 1,  and
               screen 0 will be depth 32 1600x1200.


but in practice:

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0 dkg@alice:~/tmp$ Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1600x1200x32

Fatal server error:
Couldn't add screen 0
1 dkg@alice:~/tmp$ 
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So either Xvfb is broken, or the man page is wrong.

Thanks for maintaining xvfb in debian,

       --dkg


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (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/dash

Versions of packages xvfb depends on:
ii  libaudit0       1:1.7.18-1.1
ii  libc6           2.13-37
ii  libgcrypt11     1.5.0-3
ii  libpixman-1-0   0.26.0-3
ii  libselinux1     2.1.9-5
ii  libxau6         1:1.0.7-1
ii  libxdmcp6       1:1.1.1-1
ii  libxfont1       1:1.4.5-2
ii  xserver-common  2:1.12.4-4

Versions of packages xvfb recommends:
ii  xauth  1:1.0.7-1

xvfb suggests no packages.

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