Bug 61278 - strange messages from startx
Summary: strange messages from startx
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 63117
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: XFree86
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike A. Harris
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-03-15 21:12 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-04-03 20:41:06 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2002-03-15 21:12:25 UTC 
Running startx prints the versions of net-tools and hostname to stdout/stderr.

i.e.:

# startx
net-tools version 1.60
hostname 1.100 (2001-04-14)
Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-03-16 09:30:56 UTC 
Sounds to me like your hostname command doesn't understand some parameter
being passed to it perhaps.  What does running it with "set -vx" show?
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-03-21 04:19:28 UTC 
It appears to be because the startx script is redirecting the output of hostname
through grep, but hostname prints its version to stderr instead of stdout...
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2002-04-10 22:25:58 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 63117 ***
Comment 4 Mike A. Harris 2002-04-11 16:32:47 UTC 
Fixed in rawhide now.
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