Modules Pager and MonitorWharf from =x11-wm/afterstep-2.2.9 will no longer start automatically when Afterstep is started. When started by Afterstep they attempt to use $DISPLAY * 10 and fail: Pager ERROR: Can't open display ":30". Exiting! I have hit this on both x86 and ia64. It is independent of Afterstep's config files. I can still fork a terminal, and if I call these modules by hand they work. Reproducible: Always I rooted a bit in the source, and I'm very suspicious of this line: char *display = mystrdup(XDisplayString (dpy)); (asapp.c, line 1124) and I'm wondering if the New and Improved X that was released in the last month or so has broken this call in some way. Since all 3 boxes of mine broke at the same time I very suspicious that this is the result of a dependency upgrade. I haven't debugged the output of that call yet, though. I may be barking up the wrong tree with that line of code. I'll try and triage that function and report back.
From the x86 box: tom@eServer0 ~/Buffer/Afterstep/AfterStep-2.2.9 $ emerge --info emergPortage 2.1.9.25 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.35-gentoo-r12 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.35-gentoo-r12-i686-Intel-R-_Xeon-TM-_CPU_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 05 Mar 2011 11:00:01 +0000 e -app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r2, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA GPL-1 GPL-2 GPL-3 PUEL cadsoft" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -trigraphs" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/conf.d/ /etc/modprobe.d/alsa /etc/modules.autoload.d/ /etc/ssh/ /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -funroll-loops -trigraphs" DISTDIR="/mnt/portageFiles/distfiles/" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news nostrip protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.netnitco.net ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.llarian.net/ ftp://gentoo.llarian.net/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.binarycompass.org http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirrors.cs.wmich.edu/gentoo http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.wallawalla.edu/pub/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ ftp://lug.mtu.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.hoobly.com/ http://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/gentoo/gentoo-distfiles/ http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/gentoo/ http://www.cyberuse.com/gentoo/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/mnt/portageFiles/packages.p4Desktop" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac acl berkdb bzip2 caps cli cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dvdread encode f77 gdbm gif gimp gpm hardened iconv jack jpeg lm_sensors mmx modules mp3 mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl pic png pppd python qt3support readline reiserfs session smp softmmu spell sse ssl sysfs tcltk tcpd threads tiff unicode urandom x86 xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="mach64 r128 radeon vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY ptom@eServer0 ~/Buffer/Afterstep/AfterStep-2.2.9 $ emerge -pv afterstep These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-wm/afterstep-2.2.9 USE="dbus gif gtk jpeg mmx nls png tiff -alsa -debug -svg -xinerama" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB tom@eServer0 ~/Buffer/Afterstep/AfterStep-2.2.9 $
From the ia64 box: tom@TJNIILB ~ $ emerge --info && emerge -pv afterstep Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/ia64/10.0/server, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.31-gentoo-r7 ia64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r7-ia64-31-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ia64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="ia64-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="ia64-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news nostrip protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" PKGDIR="/mnt/diskless/portage/packages/" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="aac berkdb bindist bzip2 caps cli cracklib crypt cxx f77 fortran gdbm gpm ia64 iconv ipv6 make-symlinks modules mudflap ncurses nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre pppd python readline reiserfs samba server session snmp spell ssl sysfs tcltk tcpd threads truetype unicode usb xml xorg xulrunner zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-wm/afterstep-2.2.9 USE="gif jpeg png -alsa -dbus -debug -gtk (-mmx) -nls -svg -tiff -xinerama" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB Also, the x86 box is running xorg-server-1.9.4 The ia64 box is back at xorg-server-1.9.2 Let me know what other dependency versions would be usefull.
Afterstep 2.2.11 does this, too.
spwan_child() is being called with int screen = 0. This is causing the sprintf on line 1279 of asapp.c (2.2.11) to add a 0 to the DISPLAY argument.
VNC seems to be a factor. This step wasn't the best debugging procedure, but I think it is valid. Since all my existing servers are racked and headless, I updated and installed afterstep-2.2.9 on my VNC client box. Afterstep started as expected. Since this bug is happening on all my other boxes, I assume that the root problem is common enough that it would exist here, too.
I've created a hackaround ebuild documented here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-867977.html I'm not currently going to triage this any further for reasons documented in the forum posting.
Still valid with 2.2.11-r1?
It appears so: Pager ERROR: Can't open display ":10". Exiting! MonitorWharf ERROR: Can't open display ":10". Exiting! vncBox2 ~ # ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" emerge -pv afterstep [ebuild R ] x11-wm/afterstep-2.2.11-r1 USE="dbus gif gtk jpeg mmx png tiff -alsa -debug -nls -svg -xinerama" 0 kB
Can you please report this to upstream? Otherwise I doubt it will be ever fixed Thanks
