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Duplicate config files are sourced by Xsession

Bug #63981 reported by mannheim on 2006-10-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #52685: x11-common installs dup files. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xinit (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	xorg (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

The Xsession script in /etc/X11/Xsession sources all the configuration files in the directory /etc/X11/Xsession.d. After upgrading dapper to edgy, that directory contains two differently-named versions (not exact duplicates) of several files. For example, the directory contains:

20x11-common_process-args
20xorg-common_process-args

30x11-common_xresources
30xorg-common_xresources

50x11-common_determine-startup
50xorg-common_determine-startup

90x11-common_ssh-agent
90xorg-common_ssh-agent

99x11-common_start
99xorg-common_start

The ones with "x11" in their names are from the package "x11-common" I believe, while the ones with "xorg" in their names are from the package "xinit".

The duplication of the ssh-agent script means (I think ...) that the $STARTUP command becomes

$SSHAGENT $SSHAGENT $STARTUP

which is not what is intended.

I do not know if this duplication occurs with a clean installation of edgy.

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mannheim (kronheim) wrote on 2006-10-04:

I just tried the edgy Knot 3 live CD.

In the livecd filesystem, the above duplication does not occur: only the conf files with "x11" in their name appear in the directory /etc/X11/Xsession.d.

I guess that the duplicate "xorg" files were placed their by an earlier version of the package xinit (?) and were not removed by the edgy update.

At any rate, I have the following:

   dapper ----- has only the "xorg" named files
   Knot 3 ----- has only the "x11" named files
   upgrade ----- leaves both "xorg' and "x11"

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kmwakak8 (kmwittig) wrote on 2006-10-07:

BAH! This means crash I suppose- I looked at it briefly until it said it could cause further corruption. Edit (1.9 MiB, application/octet-stream)

I have many X11 files. There is nothing in them, and certain programs I want to install require the X11 display...I can open up at least 1/6 dozen or more if I kept clicking.

I ran some older commands earlier, and it seemed to help, until I went to change my theme in Thunderbird, and the bird is dead. I click on it, the little envelope bounces around, then **poof** its gone. I get a screen of errors that appear so fast I don't think I'd be able to copy the errors.

I tried to un-install and reinstall to no avail; reinstall from synaptic to no avail, download from online with gwet- nada, nilch, zero, nothing.

I thought I'd try kmail. It had other plans....I will have working e-mail again, I just don't know which one...maybe one that WORKS. This is my 8th reinstallation. Knot # wouldn't install at all, so I went back to 2, and have run the updates.
I can only reconfig my entire system and network so many times....if I have to I will, but I'm pretty sure I'll be grumpy about it. :p

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mannheim (kronheim) wrote on 2006-10-08:

I can confirm now this is reproducible with a default upgrade. Steps to reproduce:

1. install Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper) from the live CD.
2. Update daper to latest dapper packages and reboot.
3. Upgrade to edgy using "update-manager -c -d".
4. Reboot.
5. Start a gnome session, open a terminal and type:

pgrep -c ssh-agent

Actual result: 2
Expected result: 1

The cause is the duplicate file in Xsession.d.

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Brian Fallik (bfallik) wrote on 2006-10-21:

Does this bug cause your ssh-add to stop working? I'm trying to debug that problem on my laptop, and the symptoms sounds similar (recent upgrade to edgy, duplicate files, and 2 ssh-aggents running).

I'm wondering if this is the same bug, or I need to open a new one.

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kmwakak8 (kmwittig) wrote on 2006-10-21:

actually I've reinstalled twice since then.

so far so good...I don't trust Xserver yet...I've stayed with KDE in edgy eft

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Max Bowsher (maxb) wrote on 2006-11-02:

I'd like to add further confirmation of the issue.

The problem seems to be that a "Replaces: xinit (<= 1.0.2-0ubuntu3)" was added to x11-common, in an attempt to take care of the issue, but this did not work, because the files had also changed name.

Because of this name change, I think it is necessary for there to be a new version of xinit without the Xsession.d files released, and then a new version of x11-config which can then conflict with xinit less than the new version.

I'll add xinit to the 'affected' list of this bug, since I think fixing it will require action in both packages.