[winswitch] Ubuntu 13.04 as host - permission problems on xpra start

[Stephen Gutknecht (hilltx)]

On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Antoine Martin <antoine at nagafix.co.uk> wrote:
> On 05/07/2013 11:14 PM, Stephen Gutknecht (hilltx) wrote:
>> I'm going to try to keep this simple ;) I didn't have any of these
>> problems with numerous Ubuntu 12.10 hosts... but clean installs of
>> Ubuntu 13.04 x64 are giving me problems.
>>
>> xpera start on the host runs into various permission issues:
>>
>> 1. /dev/tty0 permission problem. A hacky chmod gets past that.
>> 2. /dev/tty8 permission problem. A hacky chmod gets past that.
>> 3. xf86EnableIOPorts permission problems
>>
>> I'm trying xpra v0.10.0
> 0.10.0 is not even in beta yet... 0.9.0 is likely to work better.
> That said, I don't think it will solve any of these errors.
>
>> Anyone able to get this working on Ubuntu 13.04?
> Sorry, not installed the latest Ubuntu yet, not particularly keen on
> finding out what they have managed to break this time around.
>
> Sounds like these permissions issues are to do with Xvfb/Xdummy rather
> than xpra itself. Trying the other option may work around that.

I've tried several times to figure out the syntax/method to shift to
Xdummy - what is the syntax with recent builds?

To clarify: I am doing a total clean install (format of the partition,
not an upgrade) of Ubuntu 12.10 / Ubuntu 13.04 on a system with Intel
HD 4000 Graphics drivers (Ivy Bridge chipset) - no special Nvidia or
ATI drivers installed here. Ubuntu 12.10 - no problems, Ubuntu 13.04
and these permission problems come up.

One more install comment: ubuntu 13.04 seems to not have libwebp2 so I
manually installed a .deb file I found at
http://ubuntu.wikimedia.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/libw/libwebp/libwebp2_0.1.3-3_amd64.deb
to get xpra to install.

I tried xpra 0.8.8-1 at one point too, same problems.