[LightDM] xserver-allow-tcp

[Ronald Hoogenboom]

AH... I see the situation is reverse. Fedora added a patch to lightdm to 
ADD the -listen option. Maybe not the correct list to log the issue 
after all. Sorry about that.

On 10/06/2015 10:56 PM, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote:
> There are 2 binaries that start the Xorg server: /usr/libexec/Xorg.bin 
> and /usr/libexec/Xorg.wrap. Both fail when passing the -listen option. 
> I grepped through the patches included in the src.rpm, but there is no 
> match for 'listen'. After rpmbuild -bp or after straight unpacking of 
> the tarball, the os/utils.c file doesn't show any strcmp for 
> "-listen", so I would say it isn't supported indeed.
>
> So far my investigations...
>
> On 10/06/2015 10:22 PM, Ronald Hoogenboom wrote:
>> I wouldn't know about that. Anyway it is not a documented option, so 
>> it is not good practice to depend on it. I am (pretending to be) a 
>> clueless user that sees it 'doesn't work anymore'.
>>
>> I can have a look at the src.rpm and see if there is any patch that 
>> disables it...
>>
>>
>> On 10/06/2015 10:14 PM, Robert Ancell wrote:
>>> Looking in the git branch for the Xorg server the listen command is 
>>> still supported. Has Fedora disabled this option for some reason?
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, 7 Oct 2015 at 08:52 Ronald Hoogenboom 
>>> <hoogenboom30 at zonnet.nl <mailto:hoogenboom30 at zonnet.nl>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     lightdm-1.10.5-2.fc21.x86_64
>>>     xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.16.3-2.fc21.x86_64
>>>
>>>     Lightdm puts the -[no]listen tcp command line option for the X
>>>     server
>>>     depending on the xserver-allow-tcp config setting (true or
>>>     false). Since
>>>     the last yum update, the Xorg server does not accept the
>>>     undocumented
>>>     -listen option anymore and exits with status 1. I am forced to set
>>>     xserver-allow-tcp to false and therefore cannot have my remote x
>>>     clients
>>>     connect anymore.
>>>
>>>     There seems to be no way to completely omit either -listen or
>>>     -nolisten
>>>     option.
>>>
>>>     Obvious workaround could be to make a wrapper script for Xorg,
>>>     but it
>>>     would be nicer if this would be handled properly in lightdm.
>>>
>>>     Bugzilla reference @redhat:
>>>     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1269247
>>>
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Ronald.
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>>>
>>
>

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