Your message dated Fri, 04 Oct 2013 00:56:04 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: x11-common: insufficient error checking in Xsession can prevent users from logging in - closing has caused the Debian Bug report #368818, regarding x11-common: insufficient error checking in Xsession can prevent users from logging in to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: x11-common Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6 Severity: normal If fold is given zero columns as an argument, it dies with the error message below. If the $COLUMNS enivornment variable is for some reason set to zero, then the command "fold -s -w ${COLUMNS:-80}" in Xsessions's message functions will cause xinit to die with only the following output in .xsession-errors: Xsession: X session started for iseggev at Wed May 24 23:51:20 CDT 2006 fold: invalid number of columns: `0' The result is that the user cannot log in. This can be fixed by setting COLUMNS=80 by hand in Xsession. Clearly the ultimate cause is some underlying bug which I have yet to identify. I would appreciate help in tracking down that bug as well, but given the ugly results for X and simple work around, (test COLUMNS and set it to 80 if it equals zero), I'm filing this bug. This never happened to me in the past; it started happening today after an upgrade. Kdm and curses seem like the most likely culprits of the packages upgraded today. The really wierd thing is that it only happens for some accounts and not others. I don't entirely understand the X login process, which makes it difficult for me to figure out exactly why this is happening. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Itai -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (110, 'unstable'), (10, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16cavy1 Locale: LANG=he_IL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=he_IL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages x11-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.1 Debian configuration management sy ii debianutils 2.16 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii lsb-base 3.1-5 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip x11-common recommends no packages. -- debconf information: x11-common/experimental_packages:
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--- Begin Message ---Hi! I'm closing this bug, since it was tagged "wontfix" for some years, without answer. If you have new reasons to point out this problem, please feel free to re-open it.
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