Ticket #390 (closed usability: fixed)
DISPLAY gets changed incorrectly by X11 libs
| Reported by: | tgl@… | Owned by: | jeremyhu@… |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Blocker | Milestone: | 2.5.1 |
| Component: | x11-libs | Version: | dev (xorg-server-1.8-apple) |
| Keywords: | regression | Cc: |
Description
A Perl Tk script that worked fine with 2.5.0 (and many previous versions) fails with 2.5.1 beta2, reporting:
_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for org.macosforge.xquartz:6000: nodename nor servname provided, or not known couldn't connect to display "org.macosforge.xquartz:0.0" at /Library/Perl/5.10.0/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Tk/MainWindow.pm line 55. MainWindow->new() at /Users/tgl/lib/listener_frontend.pl line 64
(I hadn't tried beta1 so I'm not sure whether the behavior was different in it.)
Unfortunately this script is part of my daily workflow so it's kind of critical for me :-(
Change History
comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by tgl@…
Further experimentation shows that ssh X11 forwarding is also broken: on the remote machine I get
org.macosforge.xquartz: unknown host. (nodename nor servname provided, or not known) X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Going to have to revert to 2.5.0, since this means that nothing that I want to do with X11 works :-(
comment:3 Changed 3 years ago by tgl@…
On further review, this seems to be caused by the mistaken setting of $DISPLAY that is currently being discussed on xquartz-dev.
comment:4 Changed 3 years ago by jeremyhu@…
- Status changed from new to closed
- Version changed from dev (xorg-server-1.8-apple) to 2.5.0 (xserver-1.7)
- Resolution set to invalid
- Milestone set to 2.5.1
comment:5 Changed 3 years ago by jeremyhu@…
- Status changed from closed to reopened
- Component changed from xserver to x11-libs
- Summary changed from Perl Tk can't connect to 2.5.1_beta2 to DISPLAY gets changed incorrectly by X11 libs
- Priority changed from major to blocker
- Version changed from 2.5.0 (xserver-1.7) to dev (xorg-server-1.8-apple)
- Resolution invalid deleted
If you have Perl Tk installed then a sufficient reproducer is
perl -e 'use Tk; MainWindow->new'