Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 17:49:25 GMT From: "System V. Unix" <sysv@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: ports/131304: Xorg/Xfree/X11R6 startx problem with 'hexdump -e' option Message-ID: <200902021749.n12HnPiL092732@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200902021750.n12Ho411002774@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 131304
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: Xorg/Xfree/X11R6 startx problem with 'hexdump -e' option
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Feb 02 17:50:04 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: System V. Unix
>Release: 7.1-RELEASE
>Organization:
None
>Environment:
FreeBSD f 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 1 13:37:05 MST 2009 i386
>Description:
The perl package/port devel/p5-Data-HexDump installs a binary,
/usr/local/bin/hexdump does not have the -e command line option, and
thus conflicts with the X11 startx script's attempted use of the binary to create the $mcookie.
>How-To-Repeat:
On any FreeBSD release with X11*, just install Perl port devel/p5-Data-HexDump, have /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin superceed /usr/bin and /usr/sbin in $PATH. You will see the hexdump program fail since the -e option is only in the native FreeBSD binary.
>Fix:
The X11 startx script simply needs to use the absolute path for
'/usr/bin/hexdump -e'
from FreeBSD core, so that the two packages can co-exist.
--- usr/local/bin/startx.orig 2008-06-29 11:10:50.000000000 -0600
+++ usr/local/bin/startx 2008-08-09 23:22:11.000000000 -0600
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@
-mcookie=`dd if=/dev/random bs=16 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -e \\"%08x\\"`
+mcookie=`dd if=/dev/random bs=16 count=1 2>/dev/null | /usr/bin/hexdump -e \\"%08x\\"`
if test x"$mcookie" = x; then
echo "Couldn't create cookie"
exit 1
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