[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#503878: fglrx-atieventsd: authatieventsd.sh uses finger without depending on it and is unreliable
Luca Niccoli
lultimouomo at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 23:16:21 UTC 2008
Package: fglrx-atieventsd
Version: 1:8-7-2
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Justification: Policy 3.5
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The patched version of the authentication script we ship with the package uses finger, without fglrx-atieventsd depending on it.
(Actually, I wrote that patch. Shame on me)
Moreover, the way it detects the X session owner has proved unreliable (acpi-support-base used something similar, see bug #497220 for details), so I rewrote the script using pinky (included in coreutils, which is required) and taking care of avoiding the problems of the former approach.
I've been testing it for some days and it seems to work. It would be great if you could test logging out and relogging in X, and restarting /etc/init.d/atieventsd while running X, those were the problematic actions if I recall well.
I've attached the modified script, to be diffed against the upstream one.
Cheers,
Luca
- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (98, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages fglrx-atieventsd depends on:
ii fglrx-glx 1:8-7-2 proprietary libGL for the non-free
ii libc6 2.7-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.0.3-6 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.3-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+18 the X.Org X server
Versions of packages fglrx-atieventsd recommends:
ii fglrx-driver 1:8-7-2 non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx displa
fglrx-atieventsd suggests no packages.
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