Your message dated Thu, 17 Jan 2019 08:49:42 +0100
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and subject line Re: Won't fix until the patch is upstreamed
has caused the Debian Bug report #800904,
regarding virtualbox-guest-x11: notify-send in guest additions X11 client is
noisy and scary
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Package: virtualbox-guest-x11
Version: 5.0.6-dfsg-1~bpo8+1
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
I am maintaining a distribution based on Debian Live. We have
virtualbox-guest-x11 in our default package list so that the
distribution also runs fine in VirtualBox. But when the system is *not*
running in VirtualBox, which is the main use case, the guest additions
X11 client shows a big warning message at startup via notify-send on the
desktop. This is unnecessary and really scares normal users. Therefore I
propose to use a simple echo instead of notify-send. Please see the
attached patch for a fix.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1+lernstick.1-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages virtualbox-guest-x11 depends on:
ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1
ii libnotify-bin 0.7.6-2
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3
ii libxcomposite1 1:0.4.4-1
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1
ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-1
ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1+b1
ii virtualbox-guest-utils 5.0.6-dfsg-1~bpo8+1
ii xserver-xorg-core [xorg-video-abi-18] 2:1.16.4-1
virtualbox-guest-x11 recommends no packages.
virtualbox-guest-x11 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
Description: silence the guest additions X11 client
When not running in VirtualBox, the guest additions X11 client shows a warning
message via notify-send. This is unnecessary and scares users. Therefore
we use a simple echo instead of notify-send.
Author: Ronny Standtke <[email protected]>
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virtualbox-5.0.6-dfsg.orig/src/VBox/Additions/x11/Installer/98vboxadd-xclient
+++ virtualbox-5.0.6-dfsg/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."
+ echo "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
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On Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:44:19 +0200 Gianfranco Costamagna
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Ronny, I personally won't change this until the bug is reported
> upstream and fixed there.
>
> The patch also is incomplete, it needs at least on control file, a
> remove of libnotify-bin from runtime dependencies.
>
> Please report the issue upstream [1], link it there and ping us if you
> have an upstream commit to cherry-pick.
>
notify-send is now sent in background.
Closing
G.
> cheers,
>
> Gianfranco
>
> [1] https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Community
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