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Syntax error in xkbcomp call in apport hook

Bug #311442 reported by Matt Zimmerman on 2008-12-26

2

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xorg (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Bryce Harrington

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

/usr/share/apport/package-hooks/source_xorg.py reads:

script = subprocess.Popen(['xkbcomp', ':0 -'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

but this results in:

Error: Cannot open display ":0 -"
Exiting

this should instead be:

script = subprocess.Popen(['xkbcomp', ':0', '-'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)

Note ':0' and '-' being passed as separate arguments to xkbcomp.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: x11-common 1:7.4~5ubuntu9
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH: custom, user
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-3-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.3 20081210 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.3.2-2ubuntu8) ) #4-Ubuntu SMP Fri Dec 12 22:47:31 UTC 2008

SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-3-generic x86_64
xkbcomp:

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/xorg

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote on 2008-12-26:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (561 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LsMod.txt Edit (4.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LsPci.txt Edit (17.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (1.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (50.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (49.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (3.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (262 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote on 2008-12-26:

#2

You might also consider converting some of this hook to use apport.hookutils, which lets you do, e.g.:

report['xkbcomp'] = hookutils.command_output(['xkbcomp',':0','-'])

and it does the error handling for you.

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2009-01-02:

#3

Bryce knows more about this :)

Changed in xorg:
assignee:	nobody → bryceharrington
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Confirmed

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2009-01-06:

#4

Committed to ubuntu-x git

Changed in xorg:
status:	Confirmed → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2009-01-09:

#5

This bug was fixed in the package xorg - 1:7.4~5ubuntu10

---------------
xorg (1:7.4~5ubuntu10) jaunty; urgency=low

  * apport/source_xorg.py: Fix arg list to prevent error
    'Error: Cannot open display ":0 -"'
    (LP: #311442)

-- Bryce Harrington <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:56:25 -0800

Changed in xorg:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

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