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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