Public bug reported: Binary package hint: ldm
I'm running up-to-date Karmic; the generated LTSP client fails to run. Specifically, On VT7 you get continual spamming of the message 'mktemp: Too few X's in template /var/run/ldm-xauth-<random>/Xauthority'. The ldmgtkgreeter is restarted in an infinite loop, which is seen in /var/log/ldm.log The problem is line 53 in the client image's /usr/share/ltsp/screen.d/ldm script: 51 XAUTHORITY_DIR=`mktemp -d /var/run/ldm-xauth-XXXXXXXXX` 52 export XAUTHORITY_DIR 53 XAUTHORITY=`mktemp -u ${XAUTHORITY_DIR}/Xauthority` 54 export XAUTHORITY mktemp expects a string of the format in line 51. Without the multi-char X string, it fails with the error message already mentioned. Solution is to replace the 'mktemp' with a 'touch' command, setting the XAUTHORITY value appropriately. On my machine, this gets me X started - although the machine then freezes! (laptop, nvidia driver, etc, etc). ** Affects: ldm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Bad scripting causes LDM to fail to start in the client, on karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs