Bug 116536 – electricsheep grabs all available X11 sockets due to critical xloadimage bug

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chet McNeill 2005-12-23 12:56:47 UTC]

The electricsheep screensaver shows fractal movies in a rotation. Each time it switches movies it calls xsetbg (aka xloadimage). Xloadimage grabs two X11 client sockets, and only releases one of them. So over time electricsheep calls xloadimage enough times that there are no free X11 sockets left and no new X11 clients can be opened. This generally occurs within a relatively short period, say a couple of days.

The enclosed patch and ebuild temporarily fix the problem by bypassing electricsheep's calls to xloadimage.

More details on the xloadinfo bug can be seen here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325689

[Comment 1 Chet McNeill 2005-12-23 12:57:46 UTC]

Created attachment 75405 [details, diff]
Patch removing the xloadimage calls from electricsheep

[Comment 2 Chet McNeill 2005-12-23 12:58:22 UTC]

Created attachment 75406 [details]
Ebuild that applies suggested patch to fix xlaodimage related bug

[Comment 3 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2006-01-04 13:41:19 UTC]

desktop-misc people media-gfx/xloadimage patch attached.

[Comment 4 Krzysztof Pawlik (RETIRED) 2006-01-04 13:45:04 UTC]

Dupe of 72589.

[Comment 5 Daniel Black (RETIRED) 2006-01-04 14:31:45 UTC]

Chet - thanks your patch is in electricsheep-2.6.3-r2

It seemed to also be included in 2.6.4 that I also added.