Bug 508739

Yes, this just cannot work:

# If the user did not specify an X authorization file to use, set up a temporary
# directory to house one.
if [ -z "$AUTHFILE" ]; then
    XVFB_RUN_TMPDIR="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/$PROGNAME.$$"
    if ! mkdir -p -m 700 "$XVFB_RUN_TMPDIR"; then
        error "temporary directory $XVFB_RUN_TMPDIR already exists"
        exit 4
    fi
    AUTHFILE=$(mktemp -p "$XVFB_RUN_TMPDIR" Xauthority)
fi

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Matej, I ran into the same problem but I don't understand how your proposal can work.

I ran the commands in your script manually, but when mktemp command gets executed, it still complains with the very same error message "to few X in template". This is because mktemp seems to expect a filename template that contains mutliple XXX in order to replace them with the temporary name.

So, but your hint towards Xauthority was helpful.

I ran
  xvfb-run --help
and saw that one can manually specify a file.

I used

  xfvb-run -f /tmp/any-filename-for-xauthority run-my-command

and that works for me.

Should be:

    XVFB_RUN_TMPDIR="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/$PROGNAME.XXXXXXXXXX"

or some such.

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This is still an issue.  Fix is in the bug report - should be simple.

Still an issue in FC12 using coreutils-7.6-9.fc12.i686 

Thanks Orion for the "some such!"

the actual edit (vi `which xvfb-run`) is 2 lines down : 

- AUTHFILE=$(mktemp -p "$XVFB_RUN_TMPDIR" Xauthority)
+ AUTHFILE=$(mktemp -p "$XVFB_RUN_TMPDIR" Xauthority.XXXXXXXX)

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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 544036 ***