Debian Bug report logs - #230422
xfree86-common: Should include /etc/X11/Xreset{.d}

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Message #5 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: xfree86-common: Should include /etc/X11/Xreset{.d}

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:23:50 +0100

Package:  xfree86-common
Version:  4.2.1-16
Severity: wishlist

In skolelinux, we would like to run a script when the users are
logging out, to do general cleanup.  For this, it would be useful if
the display managers had hooks in Xreset we could use to have our
script executed.

Could you please add /etc/X11/Xreset and /etc/X11/Xreset.d (like the
current /etc/X11/Xsession{.d}), and thus make it possible for the
display managers to share one such file?

If you are interested in adding this feature, I'll provide a patch and
send bugreports against wdm, xdm and kdm to ask them to use this file.

(Not sure why gdm do not include a Xreset file, but it did not appear
on
<URL:http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=Xreset>).
I'll file a bug on gdm too just to keep all of them consistent. :)

Message #10 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc Wilson <[email protected]>

To: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#230422: xfree86-common: Should include /etc/X11/Xreset{.d}

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:15:40 -0800

On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:23:50PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> 
> Package:  xfree86-common
> Version:  4.2.1-16
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> In skolelinux, we would like to run a script when the users are
> logging out, to do general cleanup.  For this, it would be useful if
> the display managers had hooks in Xreset we could use to have our
> script executed.
> 
> Could you please add /etc/X11/Xreset and /etc/X11/Xreset.d (like the
> current /etc/X11/Xsession{.d}), and thus make it possible for the
> display managers to share one such file?
> 
> If you are interested in adding this feature, I'll provide a patch and
> send bugreports against wdm, xdm and kdm to ask them to use this file.

What patch would you be adding against xdm, exactly, since xdm already
knows how to do this quite well on its own?

Well, it doesn't do anything silly like /etc/X11/Xreset.d, but it does
support Xreset and has pretty much forever.  The fact that Debian doesn't
ship one just means that you get to create one.

See xdm(1).

-- 
 Marc Wilson |     For the next hour, WE will control all that you see
 [email protected] |     and hear.

Message #15 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#230422: xfree86-common: Should include /etc/X11/Xreset{.d}

Date: 15 Feb 2004 01:21:02 +0100

[Marc Wilson]
> What patch would you be adding against xdm, exactly, since xdm already
> knows how to do this quite well on its own?

Something like inserting a file with something like this:

  #!/bin/sh
  # Do xdm specific stuff here
  # invoke global X reset script
  . /etc/X11/Xreset
  # Do more xdm specific stuff here

The file /etc/X11/Xreset could then include something like this
(copied from Xsession):

  #!/bin/sh
  message () {
    # pretty-print messages of arbitrary length; use xmessage if it
    # is available and $DISPLAY is set
    MESSAGE="$PROGNAME: $*"
    echo "$MESSAGE" | fold -s -w ${COLUMNS:-80} >&2
    if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ] && which xmessage > /dev/null 2>&1; then
      echo "$MESSAGE" | fold -s -w ${COLUMNS:-80} | xmessage -center -file -
    fi
  }
  errormsg () {
    # exit script with error
    message "$*"
    exit 1
  }
  internal_errormsg () {
    # exit script with error; essentially a "THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN" message
    # One big call to message() for the sake of xmessage; if we had two then
    # the user would have dismissed the error we want reported before seeing the
    # request to report it.
    errormsg "$*" \
             "Please report the installed version of the \"xfree86-common\"" \
             "package and the complete text of this error message to" \
             "<[email protected]>."
  }
  run_parts () {
    # until run-parts --noexec is implemented
    if [ -z "$1" ]; then
      internal_errormsg "run_parts() called without an argument."
    fi
    if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then
      internal_errormsg "run_parts() called, but \"$1\" does not exist or is" \
                        "not a directory."
    fi
    for F in $(ls $1); do
      if expr "$F" : '[[:alnum:]_-]\+$' > /dev/null 2>&1; then
        if [ -f "$1/$F" ]; then
          echo "$1/$F"
        fi
      fi
    done
  }
  SYSSESSIONDIR=/etc/X11/Xreset.d
  SESSIONFILES=$(run_parts $SYSSESSIONDIR)
  if [ -n "$SESSIONFILES" ]; then
    for SESSIONFILE in $SESSIONFILES; do
      . $SESSIONFILE
    done
  fi
  exit 0

If all ?dm implementations in Debian supported this, it would be easy
for the Debian-Edu / Skolelinux to hook into the configuration.  Of
course, we could add separate hooks for each ?dm package and try to
keep them in sync, but the task is so similar that I believe it is
best to store it in one file shared by all display managers.

> See xdm(1).

I've read it. :)

Message #20 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brice Goglin <[email protected]>

To: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Bug#230422: xfree86-common: Should include /etc/X11/Xreset{.d}

Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:43:35 +0100

Hi,

About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding the
missing /etc/X11/Xreset{,.d}.
Does this problem still matter today? If not, I will close this bug in
the next weeks.

Thanks,
Brice

Message #25 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brice Goglin <[email protected]>

To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: ping timeout, closing

Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:24:49 +0100

Closing this bug since I didn't get any reply from the submitter after
my ping a month ago. If anybody ever reproduces this problem, feel free
to reopen.

Brice

Message #30 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: xfree86-common: Should include /etc/X11/Xreset{.d}

Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:17:09 +0100

reopen 230422
thanks

[Brice Goglin]
> About 3 years ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding
> the missing /etc/X11/Xreset{,.d}.  Does this problem still matter
> today? If not, I will close this bug in the next weeks.

Yes, it does.  We would for example like to kill processes, remove
temp files or similar, and it would be a lot easier if some Xreset.d/
like mechanism is available.

For example, we would like to supply a script in the debian-edu-config
package to clean up commonly left behind processes when a user log
out, and get it enabled without having to edit any file, especially a
file in another package.

> Closing this bug since I didn't get any reply from the submitter
> after my ping a month ago. If anybody ever reproduces this problem,
> feel free to reopen.

Sorry for missing the ping.

Friendly,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

Message #37 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brice Goglin <[email protected]>

To: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Cc: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#230422: xfree86-common: Should include /etc/X11/Xreset{.d}

Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:55:58 +0100

reassign 230422 x11-common
thank you

> Yes, it does.  We would for example like to kill processes, remove
> temp files or similar, and it would be a lot easier if some Xreset.d/
> like mechanism is available.
>
> For example, we would like to supply a script in the debian-edu-config
> package to clean up commonly left behind processes when a user log
> out, and get it enabled without having to edit any file, especially a
> file in another package.
>   

Ok, thanks. Reassigning to x11-common since xfree86-common does not
exist anymore.

> Sorry for missing the ping.

Better late than never :)

Brice

Message #44 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: free86-common: Should include /etc/X11/Xreset{.d}

Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:20:31 +0100

Any hope of having this fixed for Squeeze?  What can I do to help make
this feature available in Squeeze?

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

Message #49 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brice Goglin <[email protected]>

To: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>, [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#230422: free86-common: Should include /etc/X11/Xreset{.d}

Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:39:56 +0100

Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Any hope of having this fixed for Squeeze?  What can I do to help make
> this feature available in Squeeze?
>   

Find some maintainers for X in Debian :)

Brice

Message #54 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Petter Reinholdtsen <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Re: Bug#230422: free86-common: Should include /etc/X11/Xreset{.d}

Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:00:32 +0100

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

tags 230422 + patch
thanks

[Brice Goglin]
> Find some maintainers for X in Debian :)

Do not know how to do that, but I do know how to make a patch
implementing the change I want.  This patch implement the Xreset.d
framework.  When it is in place, the next step is to get the display
manager maintainers to use it, ie get their own Xreset script to use
/etc/X11/Xreset.

With Debian Edu, we need a way to run stuff as root when a user log
out.  We did consider pam, but pam modules are running as the user
itself during logout, and do not allow all the operations we want to
do during logout.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen

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Message #75 received at [email protected] (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brice Goglin <[email protected]>

To: [email protected]

Subject: Bug#230422: fixed in xorg 1:7.5+4

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:32:58 +0000

Source: xorg
Source-Version: 1:7.5+4

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xorg, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libglu1-xorg-dev_7.5+4_all.deb
  to main/x/xorg/libglu1-xorg-dev_7.5+4_all.deb
libglu1-xorg_7.5+4_all.deb
  to main/x/xorg/libglu1-xorg_7.5+4_all.deb
x11-common_7.5+4_all.deb
  to main/x/xorg/x11-common_7.5+4_all.deb
xbase-clients_7.5+4_all.deb
  to main/x/xorg/xbase-clients_7.5+4_all.deb
xlibmesa-gl-dev_7.5+4_all.deb
  to main/x/xorg/xlibmesa-gl-dev_7.5+4_all.deb
xlibmesa-gl_7.5+4_all.deb
  to main/x/xorg/xlibmesa-gl_7.5+4_all.deb
xlibmesa-glu_7.5+4_all.deb
  to main/x/xorg/xlibmesa-glu_7.5+4_all.deb
xorg-dev_7.5+4_all.deb
  to main/x/xorg/xorg-dev_7.5+4_all.deb
xorg_7.5+4.dsc
  to main/x/xorg/xorg_7.5+4.dsc
xorg_7.5+4.tar.gz
  to main/x/xorg/xorg_7.5+4.tar.gz
xorg_7.5+4_i386.deb
  to main/x/xorg/xorg_7.5+4_i386.deb
xserver-xorg-input-all_7.5+4_i386.deb
  to main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg-input-all_7.5+4_i386.deb
xserver-xorg-video-all_7.5+4_i386.deb
  to main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg-video-all_7.5+4_i386.deb
xserver-xorg_7.5+4_i386.deb
  to main/x/xorg/xserver-xorg_7.5+4_i386.deb
xutils_7.5+4_all.deb
  to main/x/xorg/xutils_7.5+4_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Brice Goglin <[email protected]> (supplier of updated xorg package)

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Urgency: low
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