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

From: Rob <spamrefuse_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 22:23:30 +0900
Brooks Davis wrote:
> 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.

Patch works like a charm; only needs quotes around the ${clear_tmp_xdirs}
in the if-line of /etc/rc.d/cleartmp.

Thanks.
Rob.

> 
> 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
> 
Received on Fri Jan 07 2005 - 12:23:41 UTC

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