control: tags -1 moreinfo Hello Rohan, On Thu, 02 Nov 2017 17:13:51 +0100 Rohan Garg <ro...@kde.org> wrote: > Package: virtualbox-guest-x11 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > Due to a recent change in Plasma, a call to notify-send is blocked till such > time > Plasma has started. 98vboxadd-xclient calls notify-send before Plasma is > started, > blocking SDDM and delaying the start of Plasma. > > See https://phabricator.kde.org/D5012 for a discussion about the change. > > Perhaps a good idea would be to either fork that call. >
what is the approach you are suggesting?
this?
git diff
diff --git a/src/VBox/Additions/x11/Installer/98vboxadd-xclient
b/src/VBox/Additions/x11/Installer/98vboxadd-xclient
index 985e9e7ab..8187a3fe4 100755
--- a/src/VBox/Additions/x11/Installer/98vboxadd-xclient
+++ b/src/VBox/Additions/x11/Installer/98vboxadd-xclient
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ done
if ! test -c /dev/vboxguest 2>/dev/null; then
# Do not start if the kernel module is not present.
- notify-send "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running.
Exiting."
+ notify-send "VBoxClient: the VirtualBox kernel service is not running.
Exiting." &
elif test -z "${SSH_CONNECTION}"; then
# This script can also be triggered by a connection over SSH, which is not
# what we had in mind, so we do not start VBoxClient in that case. We do
I fail to see notify-send calls in the code that might give such troubles,
specically because they are ran in
error conditions that will unlikely be part of Debian use-cases (e.g.
/dev/vboxguest exists always in Debian context
BTW can you please report this upstream? this seems not a Debian specific issue
G.
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