[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#503878: fglrx-atieventsd: authatieventsd.sh uses finger without depending on it and is unreliable

[Luca Niccoli]

Package: fglrx-atieventsd
Version: 1:8-7-2
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Justification: Policy 3.5

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The patched version of the authentication script we ship with the package uses finger, without fglrx-atieventsd depending on it.
(Actually, I wrote that patch. Shame on me)
Moreover, the way it detects the X session owner has proved unreliable (acpi-support-base used something similar, see bug #497220 for details), so I rewrote the script using pinky (included in coreutils, which is required) and taking care of avoiding the problems of the former approach.
I've been testing it for some days and it seems to work. It would be great if you could test logging out and relogging in X, and restarting /etc/init.d/atieventsd while running X, those were the problematic actions if I recall well.
I've attached the modified script, to be diffed against the upstream one.
Cheers,
Luca

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (98, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fglrx-atieventsd depends on:
ii  fglrx-glx                     1:8-7-2    proprietary libGL for the non-free
ii  libc6                         2.7-15     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]      7.0.3-6    A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.1.5-2  X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                      2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxrandr2                    2:1.2.3-1  X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.4-2  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  xserver-xorg                  1:7.3+18   the X.Org X server

Versions of packages fglrx-atieventsd recommends:
ii  fglrx-driver                  1:8-7-2    non-free AMD/ATI r5xx, r6xx displa

fglrx-atieventsd suggests no packages.

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