xvfb package dependency suggestion

[Sean Suchter]

Ah, thanks for the redirect, I’ll look there.

Sean

On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 5:51 AM Matthieu Herrb <matthieu at herrb.eu> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 03:52:52PM -0700, Sean Suchter wrote:
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> > Hi xorg-folks -
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> >
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> > Thanks for all the work you do that allows the rest of us to use X11.
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> >
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> > I came across an issue today when trying to use Xvfb on a headless Linux
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> > server. I couldn't figure out why Xvfb would start,but have no
> framebuffers
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> > available. (glXGetFBConfigs would always return NULL). I finally (after
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> > several hours) figured out that the problem was the lack of
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> > 'swrast_dri.so', which I'm guessing is a software raster driver. Once I
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> > figured out that I needed this library (again, several hours), the
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> > forthcoming fix was trivial:
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> >
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> > I'm using Centos 8, and I easily found the package that provides it:
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> >
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> > % dnf provides '*/swrast_dri.so'
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> > ...
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> > mesa-dri-drivers-19.3.4-2.el8.x86_64 : Mesa-based DRI drivers
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> > Repo        : @System
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> > Matched from:
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> > Filename    : /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so
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> > ...
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> >
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> > Once I installed mesa-dri-drivers, everything worked.
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> >
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> > My suggestion is to make xorg-x11-server-Xvfb depend on mesa-dri-drivers,
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> > since it obviously wants to use this provided library.
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> >
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>
> Hi,
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> Your analysis is correct.
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> However, X.Org doesn't provide the binary packages, nor do we provide
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> the data used by various vendors to make their packages.  So this
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> suggestion needs to be sent to the maintainers of the CentOS package,
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> using https://bugs.centos.org/.
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> Best regards,
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> --
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> Matthieu Herrb
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