This one time, at band camp, Francesco Poli said: > On Sun, 03 May 2009 13:05:09 +0200 Andreas Tscharner wrote: > > I start root-tail in WindowMaker autostart > > (~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart) > > with the following command: > > > > root-tail -g 700x200+950+850 -fn fixed /var/log/messages,green > > ~/.xsession-errors, blue & > > > > This does not display anything at all after the X.org update. > > Hi Andreas! > I am another root-tail user. > > I am currently running root-tail/1.2-3 on a Debian testing box, and I > am *not* experiencing the bug you reported.
... > Stephen, what do you think? > Should this bug be downgraded to important? > Could you please help Andreas in solving his problem? I think that a package that non-deterministically doesn't work probably doesn't belong in a stable release. I unfortunately don't have enough knowledge about the X api to make any good guesses as to what the problem might be. The fds that are being read from appear to me to be the usual communication with the X server, not reads from the logfiles (note that the logfiles have been stat()'ed but not yet opened). if root-tail is unable to communicate to the X server, I have no idea why. If Andreas has any additional information, that would be great - it might be something simple like a rebuild fixes it, or it might be something like a subtle bit of the X api has changed with X.org and root-tail won't be fixed until someone who understands X better than I do comes along, or I manage to find the time to finally dig into it enough to debug this. Cheers, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : sg...@debian.org | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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