xbase-clients: [startx] uses non-POSIX statements (/bin/bash)

Automatically imported from Debian bug report #345671 http://bugs.debian.org/345671

Message-ID: <20060102175507.6619.55596.reportbug@cante>
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:55:07 +0200
From: Jari Aalto <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: xbase-clients: [startx] uses non-POSIX statements (/bin/bash)

Package: xbase-clients
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1
Severity: serious

The new /usr/X11R6/bin/startx script contains statement that is
is not /bin/sh compatible. I use /bin/sh => /bin/dash and the
script fails to start.

The offending line is:

   147 add $displayname . $mcookie
   148 EOF
   149 removelist="$displayname $removelist"
   150 else
>> 151 dummy=$((dummy+1));
   152 /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth -q -f $xserverauthfile << EOF
   153 add :$dummy . $authcookie
   154 EOF
   155 fi
   156 done

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-2-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages xbase-clients depends on:
ii cpp 4:4.0.2-2 The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii libc6 2.3.5-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdmx1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 Distributed Multihead X client lib
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.10-1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libfs6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Font Server library
ii libglu1-xorg [libglu1] 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 Mesa OpenGL utility library [X.Org
ii libice6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Session Management
ii libxau6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Authentication library
ii libxaw8 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Athena widget set library
ii libxcursor1 1.1.3-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxfixes3 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous 'fix
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxinerama1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System multi-head display
ii libxkbfile1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Keyboard Extension file parsing
ii libxkbui1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Keyboard Extension user interfac
ii libxmu6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxmuu1 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 lightweight X Window System miscel
ii libxp6 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System printing extension
ii libxpm4 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X pixmap library
ii libxrandr2 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System Resize, Rot...

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:38:14 +0000
From: "Adam D. Barratt" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>, Jari Aalto <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#345671: xbase-clients: [startx] uses non-POSIX statements
 (/bin/bash)

package xbase-clients
severity 345671 normal
merge 345671 345446
thanks

On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 19:55 +0200, Jari Aalto wrote:
> Package: xbase-clients
> Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-1
> Severity: serious
>
> The new /usr/X11R6/bin/startx script contains statement that is
> is not /bin/sh compatible. I use /bin/sh => /bin/dash and the
> script fails to start.

The only problem with the line is the fact that a $ was missed out
accidentally; this has already been reported as 345446 a few days ago,
and is already fixed in SVN.

$(()) for shell arithmetic is perfectly POSIX complaint.

Regards,

Adam

Message-Id: <email address hidden>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 22:35:30 +0000
From: Adam D. Barratt <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: setting package to xbase-clients,
 retitle 345671 to startx: missing a $ in variable name $dummy

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.10
package xbase-clients
retitle 345671 startx: missing a $ in variable name $dummy

Message-id: <20060104222931.GF12894@localdomain>
Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:29:31 -0500
From: David Nusinow <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Tag Pending Bugs

tags 345328 +pending
tags 343693 +pending
tags 343822 +pending
tags 345285 +pending
tags 345406 +pending
tags 345446 +pending
tags 345387 +pending
tags 343728 +pending
tags 345893 +pending
thanks

fixed in dappah