NetBSD Problem Report #43184
From dholland@eecs.harvard.edu Tue Apr 20 21:47:25 2010
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Subject: insane paranoia in xterm
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>Number: 43184
>Category: xsrc
>Synopsis: insane paranoia in xterm
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: xsrc-manager
>State: closed
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Apr 20 21:50:00 +0000 2010
>Closed-Date: Thu Jul 08 06:51:54 +0000 2021
>Last-Modified: Thu Jul 08 06:51:54 +0000 2021
>Originator: David A. Holland
>Release: NetBSD 5.99.22 (20091208)
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD tanaqui 5.99.22 NetBSD 5.99.22 (TANAQUI) #31: Tue Dec 8 22:53:35 EST 2009 dholland@tanaqui:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/TANAQUI i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
# env DISPLAY=fubar xterm
Warning: This program is an suid-root program or is being run by the root user.
The full text of the error or warning message cannot be safely formatted
in this environment. You may get a more descriptive message by running the
program as a non-root user or by removing the suid bit on the executable.
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: %s
Exit 1
..."safely formatted". right.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run xterm as root with an invalid DISPLAY.
>Fix:
administer beatdown?
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: dholland@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Thu, 08 Jul 2021 06:51:54 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
no longer happens, I guess upstream regained their senses
>Unformatted:
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