Linuxulator X11 broken?

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Andrew wrote:

> On 29 September 2011 12:50, Andrew <andrew at flarn.com> wrote:
>> I'm seeing broken flash plugin, skype and citrix client all reporting
>> in one way or other that they can't open display. This is all on
>> 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #8: Thu Sep 29 10:11:04 BST 2011 built
>> this morning on amd64.
>> e.g.
>> 
>> (npviewer.bin:2790): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
>> *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** ERROR: failed to initialize plugin-side RPC
>> client connection
>> 
>> part of ktrace of skype failing to launch:
>> ......
>> 
>> I've reinstalled linux-f10* ports to see if anything changed, but to no avail.
> 
> Commenting out the sizeof(sockaddr_un) checks and re-compiling my
> kernel gets linuxulator things working again.
> 
> Looking at the above ktrace shows a struct sockaddr rather than
> sockaddr_un? Does this make these checks wrong (at least for
> linuxulator)?

It will always do that.  There's a linuxolator bug in the kernel that
the latest SAs unhid.  People are working on it but it'll need fixing
in all security branches so it's not a 3 minute task unfortunately.

/bz

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