FS#6941 - xorg-xinit has upstream bug
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Arch Linux
Opened by Adrian Pavone (wingot) - Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 14:36 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 15:46 GMT
Opened by Adrian Pavone (wingot) - Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 14:36 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 15:46 GMT
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Details
A bug in the upstream xorg-xinit results in many
.serverauth.xxxx files being created if X is started with
startx and does not always close cleanly (one per time it
doesn't close cleanly to be specific). This can occur if
users shutdown from inside X, press ctrl-alt-backspace,
computer crashes, power-loss, even if X fails to start
actually.
The attached patch for the PKGBUILD parses /usr/bin/startx and changes the line that creates the unique file each time to one that always uses a specific file (by default, ~/.XAuthority). In the process it also fixes the use of the XAUTHORITY environment variable to allow the specification of a different location. 
xorg-xinit.diff
(0.4 KiB)
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Closed by Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 15:46 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Additional comments about closing: This is by design and fixes issues where homes are mounted on NFS. It's your own responsibility if you decide to pull the plug out of X while the serverauth files haven't been cleaned yet.
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 15:46 GMT
Reason for closing: Won't fix
Additional comments about closing: This is by design and fixes issues where homes are mounted on NFS. It's your own responsibility if you decide to pull the plug out of X while the serverauth files haven't been cleaned yet.