This bug is still present in xvfb 2:1.20.13-1ubuntu1~20.04.2. It prevents us from using `xvfb-run` when we need to disambiguate STDOUT and STDERR.
I'm not familiar with the problem of autopkgtests, but is this still an issue? Can autopkgtests be fixed? If we're an impasse, does it make sense to turn this into a feature request to add a flag to change the redirection behavior? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1059947 Title: xvfb-run munges stdout and stderr together Status in xorg-server package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: It executes the supplied command thusly: DISPLAY=:$SERVERNUM XAUTHORITY=$AUTHFILE "$@" 2>&1 This should be DISPLAY=:$SERVERNUM XAUTHORITY=$AUTHFILE "$@" Leaving the caller to redirect stderr to stdout, or to supply a single fd at their discretion. The side effect of munging the two fd's together is that programs which provide structured data on stdout have their output streams corrupted if they, or any subprocesses they have, happen to write to stderr at an inopportune time. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1059947/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
