Linuxulator X11 broken?

[Andrew]

On 30 September 2011 10:08, Bjoern A. Zeeb <bz at zabbadoz.net> wrote:
>
> 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.
>

Thanks, not in a rush, I understand making sure the fix is correct
whilst maintaining the security and applying it to all the branches is
more involved.

Andrew