[Python-apps-team] Bug#752500: xpra: Doesn't work as root anymore

[Ph. Marek]

Package: xpra
Version: 0.13.5+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

I need to manage VMs on a far-away server; the easiest way for me to do so is
to run "virt-manager" via xpra.

Since the last upgrade it doesn't work anymore:

  $ xpra attach ssh:<server>:99
  xpra client version 0.13.5
  ...
  Received uninterpretable nonsense: '\nWarning: running as root\n'
  Connection lost

I've had to change /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xpra/scripts/main.py to
remove that check in run_mode(); simply changing the test to use "_proxy"
wasn't enough.


Please restore the as-root functionality!


Thank you very much.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xpra depends on:
ii  libavcodec55              6:10.1-1
ii  libavutil53               6:10.1-1
ii  libc6                     2.19-3
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.23-1
ii  libswscale2               9:1.2.3-dmo1
ii  libvpx1                   1.3.0-2
ii  libwebp5                  0.4.0-4.1
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-2
ii  libx264-142               2:0.142.2389+git956c8d8-5
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.2-1
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.1-1
ii  libxrandr2                2:1.4.2-1
ii  libxtst6                  2:1.2.2-1
ii  python                    2.7.6-2
ii  python-gtk2               2.24.0-3+b1
ii  x11-xserver-utils         7.7+2
ii  xserver-xorg-input-void   1:1.4.0-1+b3
ii  xserver-xorg-video-dummy  1:0.3.7-1+b2

Versions of packages xpra recommends:
ii  openssh-client    1:6.6p1-5
ii  python-avahi      0.6.31-4
ii  python-gtkglext1  1.1.0-9.1
ii  python-imaging    2.4.0-2
ii  python-netifaces  0.8-3+b2
ii  python-webm       0.2.4-1
ii  ssh-askpass       1:1.2.4.1-9

Versions of packages xpra suggests:
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad   0.10.23-7.2+b1
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-good  0.10.31-3+nmu3
ii  gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly  0.10.19-2.1
ii  openssh-server              1:6.6p1-5
ii  pulseaudio                  5.0-2
ii  pulseaudio-utils            5.0-2
ii  python-dbus                 1.2.0-2+b3
ii  python-gst0.10              0.10.22-3
pn  python-pyopencl             <none>

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