Bug 148056 – Deskbar-applet-2.16.0 fails to build

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Frink 2006-09-18 06:35:49 UTC]

Deskbar-applet-2.16.0 fails to build when being built from an ssh connection with 
"checking for gnomeapplet module... X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.". 
Setting DISPLAY="" or emerging from a VT both work just fine.

[Comment 1 Patrick van Staveren 2006-11-14 22:45:07 UTC]

Created attachment 101962 [details]
r1 ebuild that applies the patch

[Comment 2 Patrick van Staveren 2006-11-14 22:45:47 UTC]

Created attachment 101963 [details, diff]
patch for configure.ac to unset DISPLAY

This is a bug that should be fixed upstream.

Regardless, I've attached a hack/patch that runs 'unset DISPLAY' before doing the python gnomeapplet checks.  When python imports the gtk module (req'd by gnomeapplet) it won't see an X connection regardless, and thus does not try to connect to it.  It doesn't matter, because the shell session doesn't need an X server to build a package :)

This only will appear in very rare cases...for me, I had to ssh from one box to another, with -X, and then delete the .Xauthority file to mimic the behaviour as described.  This will fix it for everyone.

If anyone knows a bit more about python and can come up with a way to tell the importing of gtk to not try to connect to X, that'd be useful...else, I'll also file this upstream at bgo.

[Comment 3 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2006-11-15 08:45:03 UTC]

Fixed.

[Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2006-11-29 01:17:58 UTC]

Closing as per dang's comment.