[PATCH xinit 1/2] startx: Fix startx picking an already used display number when -nolock is used

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Tue Mar 24 17:54:27 PDT 2015


On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 03:02:35PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Currently startx relies on /tmp/.X?-lock being present for automatically
> picking a free display number. This does not work if -nolock is used when
> starting the server, or if the server is started with -displayfd as -displayfd
> implies -nolock.
> 
> This is becoming a problem now that -displayfd is getting used by
> display-managers (e.g. gdm), this fixes this by also checking for
> /tmp/.X11-unix/X?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>

Cheers,
   Peter

> ---
>  startx.cpp | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/startx.cpp b/startx.cpp
> index 8520399..fe49996 100644
> --- a/startx.cpp
> +++ b/startx.cpp
> @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ enable_xauth=1
>  XCOMM Automatically determine an unused $DISPLAY
>  d=0
>  while true ; do
> -    [ -e /tmp/.X$d-lock ] || break
> +    [ -e "/tmp/.X$d-lock" -o -S "/tmp/.X11-unix/X$d" ] || break
>      d=$(($d + 1))
>  done
>  defaultdisplay=":$d"
> -- 
> 2.3.3
> 
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