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and subject line Bug#617615: fixed in rdesktop 1.9.0-3
has caused the Debian Bug report #617615,
regarding rdesktop: Use of -g workarea causes X Error of failed request:
BadValue
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: rdesktop
Version: 1.6.0-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
User: [email protected]
Usertags: origin-ubuntu natty ubuntu-patch
In Ubuntu, the attached patch was applied to achieve the following:
* debian/patches/15_lp192218.dpatch: fix -g workarea on 64 bit machines
(LP: #192218)
Details can be found in the Ubuntu bug[1]. Basically, rdesktop assigns
an unsigned char * to an unsigned int and on 64 bit systems these are
different sizes. Comment #11 in the Ubuntu bug has full analysis. This
patch was taken from upstream[2].
Thanks for considering the patch.
[1]https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rdesktop/+bug/192218
[2]http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop?view=revision&revision=1550
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers natty-updates
APT policy: (500, 'natty-updates'), (500, 'natty-security'), (500, 'natty')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic (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
diff -u rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/control rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/control
--- rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/control
+++ rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/control
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
Source: rdesktop
Section: x11
Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <[email protected]>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 6.0.0), dpatch (>= 2.0.9), pkg-config, autotools-dev, libasound2-dev, libxt-dev, libx11-dev, libssl-dev, libsamplerate-dev
Standards-Version: 3.8.2
@@ -17 +16,0 @@
-
diff -u rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/changelog rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/changelog
diff -u rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/patches/00list rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/patches/00list
--- rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/patches/00list
+++ rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/patches/00list
@@ -23,0 +24 @@
+15_lp192218.dpatch
only in patch2:
unchanged:
--- rdesktop-1.6.0.orig/debian/patches/15_lp192218.dpatch
+++ rdesktop-1.6.0/debian/patches/15_lp192218.dpatch
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
+## Origin: http://rdesktop.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rdesktop?view=revision&revision=1550
+## Description: _NET_WORKAREA is interpreted wrong on 64-bit machines (-g workarea)
+## Ubuntu-Bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rdesktop/+bug/192218
+
+@DPATCH@
+diff -urNad '--exclude=CVS' '--exclude=.svn' '--exclude=.git' '--exclude=.arch' '--exclude=.hg' '--exclude=_darcs' '--exclude=.bzr' rdesktop-1.6.0~/ewmhints.c rdesktop-1.6.0/ewmhints.c
+--- rdesktop-1.6.0~/ewmhints.c 2008-04-02 06:13:22.000000000 -0500
++++ rdesktop-1.6.0/ewmhints.c 2011-03-09 15:14:22.000000000 -0600
+@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
+ int current_desktop;
+ unsigned long nitems_return;
+ unsigned char *prop_return;
+- uint32 *return_words;
++ long *return_words;
+ const uint32 net_workarea_x_offset = 0;
+ const uint32 net_workarea_y_offset = 1;
+ const uint32 net_workarea_width_offset = 2;
+@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
+ if (current_desktop < 0)
+ return -1;
+
+- return_words = (uint32 *) prop_return;
++ return_words = (long *) prop_return;
+
+ *x = return_words[current_desktop * 4 + net_workarea_x_offset];
+ *y = return_words[current_desktop * 4 + net_workarea_y_offset];
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: rdesktop
Source-Version: 1.9.0-3
Done: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
rdesktop, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]> (supplier of updated rdesktop
package)
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Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:57:15 +0100
Source: rdesktop
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Version: 1.9.0-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) <[email protected]>
Closes: 563114 573395 617615 639413 749056 839551 1110334
Changes:
rdesktop (1.9.0-3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
[ Andreas Tille <[email protected]> ]
* Maintain package in Debian team on Salsa
* Drop obsolete debian/README.source
Closes: #1110334
* debhelper-compat (= 13)
* d/control:
- Drop explicit Build-Depends: autoconf, automake
- Build-Depends: s/pkg-config/pkgconf/
* d/copyright:
- DEP5
- Review
* Add hint that upstream needs a new upstream maintainer to long
description.
* d/watch: version=5
* Verify that this upstream version contains the patch which fixes
DPI and Mouse Cursor for Windows 10
Closes: #839551
* Verify that code to fix redirected disk file transfer is included
in recent upstream version
Closes: #563114
* Verify that patch to nt duplicate scroll wheel events is included
in recent upstream version
Closes: #573395
* Verify that patch is applied upstream
Closes: #617615
* Verify that value for CallerAvailableAllocationUnits from
FileFsFullSizeInformation is correct in this version
Closes: #639413
* Verify that this version does support _WM_NET_PID
Closes: #749056
* Standards-Version: 4.7.3
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