Re: Xorg ICE vs. Xfce4 (4.2-RC3) needs fixing /etc/rc.d/cleartmp

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:08:34AM +0900, Rob wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm testing Xfce 4.2-RC3, but it has following problems at startup:
> 
> ---------------- .xsession-errors
> _IceTransmkdir: ERROR: euid != 0,directory /tmp/.ICE-unix will not be 
> created.
> _IceTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.ICE-unix) failed, errno = 2
> _IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
> xfce4-session: Unable to establish ICE listeners: Cannot establish any 
> listening sockets

> The patch below from Pawel Worach solves the problem.

Could you please try the following patch?  It does the same thing, but
gives the inode paranoid a way to disable the creation of these
directories or only create the ones they need.

-- Brooks

Index: rc.d/cleartmp
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/etc/rc.d/cleartmp,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -p -r1.11 cleartmp
--- rc.d/cleartmp	7 Oct 2004 13:55:25 -0000	1.11
+++ rc.d/cleartmp	7 Jan 2005 00:31:51 -0000
_at__at_ -35,5 +35,7 _at__at_ run_rc_command "$1"
 # restarting X
 #
 rm -f /tmp/.X[0-9]-lock
-rm -fr /tmp/.X11-unix
-mkdir -m 1777 /tmp/.X11-unix
+if [ -n ${clear_tmp_xdirs} ]; then
+	rm -fr ${clear_tmp_xdirs}
+	mkdir -m 1777 ${clear_tmp_xdirs}
+fi
Index: defaults/rc.conf
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/etc/defaults/rc.conf,v
retrieving revision 1.235
diff -u -p -r1.235 rc.conf
--- defaults/rc.conf	15 Dec 2004 12:39:28 -0000	1.235
+++ defaults/rc.conf	7 Jan 2005 00:30:49 -0000
_at__at_ -443,6 +443,8 _at__at_ linux_enable="NO"	# Linux binary compati
 svr4_enable="NO"	# SysVR4 emulation loaded at startup (or NO).
 osf1_enable="NO"	# Alpha OSF/1 emulation loaded at startup (or NO).
 clear_tmp_enable="NO"	# Clear /tmp at startup.
+clear_tmp_xdirs="/tmp/.X11-unix /tmp/.font-unix /tmp/.ICE-unix"
+			# Directories needed by X11
 ldconfig_insecure="NO"	# Set to YES to disable ldconfig security checks
 ldconfig_paths="/usr/lib/compat /usr/X11R6/lib /usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg"
 			# shared library search paths

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