Bug#884934: xauth's segfault delays startx's start and exit
Package: xauth
Version: 1:1.0.10-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Since the upgrade (and dist-upgrade) from stretch to buster, startx delays to
start and also to exit, everytime. The first message in the systemd
journal after I run startx is:
kernel: xauth[12556]: segfault at 1 ip 00007f058e06d405 sp 00007fff095bb9e8 error 4 in libc-2.25.so[7f058dfd7000+199000]
The numbers vary, but it is always "at 1 ip" and "error 4". In the tty,
after the initial delay and right before launching X, there's a message
complaining that xauth couldn't lock .Xauthority.
After quitting wm (i3), there's also another delay and, before running
startx again, I have to remove the generated .Xauthority-*. If I run
startx with the .Xauthority-* files, there's an even higher startup
delay. In this case, strace shows that xauth keeps complaining about
already-existent .Xauthority-* files.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.13.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages xauth depends on:
ii libc6 2.25-3
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1+b2
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxmuu1 2:1.1.2-2
xauth recommends no packages.
xauth suggests no packages.
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