Ubuntu
xorg package

xorg fails to start due to "bad fd number"

Bug #340676 reported by Martin Olsson
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xorg (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

X.org shows a message saying that the X.org session lasted less than 10 seconds. In detail this error is shown:
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/60x11-localhost: 4: Syntax error: Bad fd number

On my system this file looks like:
      # This file is sourced by Xsession(5), not executed.
      [ -x /usr/bin/xhost ] && [ -x /usr/bin/id ] &&
          xhost +si:localuser:`id -un` >& /dev/null

I think this is a plain typo and that they mean &> (i.e. redirect both stdout and stderr) instead of >& which makes bash choke.

The strange thing is that this comes from upstream:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/rpms/xorg-x11-xinit/devel/localuser.sh?revision=1.2&view=markup

Revision history for this message
Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Changed it to >. Update to 5u15 and verify fix plz.

Changed in xorg:
status: New → Fix Released
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Martin Olsson (mnemo) wrote :

After "sudo apt-get update" I do see 5u15, however, even after running "sudo apt-get install --reinstall x11-common", "sudo aptitude reinstall x11-common" and "sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh x11-common" that didn't fix it for me (config file doesn't get updated?). I'm guess that I'm just doing it the wrong way? If I do "apt-get source x11-common" then I see the bugfix inside ~/src/x11-common_apt/xorg-7.4~5ubuntu15/debian/local/Xsession.d/60x11-localhost" but I don't see that fix making it into the real copy of the config file in etc?

If I change it manually to say:

    xhost +si:localuser:`id -un` > /dev/null

Then it works fine.

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