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Subject: Re: xvfb package dependency suggestion
From: Sean Suchter <sean () suchter ! com>
Date: 2020-08-24 14:28:07
Message-ID: CAG-9ZyEaWY+Dod4QRNSJ1ObzS3A09JqygA4WdUjGmKG9JFk31Q () mail ! gmail ! com
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Ah, thanks for the redirect, I'll look there.
Sean
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 5:51 AM Matthieu Herrb <matthieu@herrb.eu> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 03:52:52PM -0700, Sean Suchter wrote:
>
> > Hi xorg-folks -
>
> >
>
> > Thanks for all the work you do that allows the rest of us to use X11.
>
> >
>
> > I came across an issue today when trying to use Xvfb on a headless Linux
>
> > server. I couldn't figure out why Xvfb would start,but have no
> framebuffers
>
> > available. (glXGetFBConfigs would always return NULL). I finally (after
>
> > several hours) figured out that the problem was the lack of
>
> > 'swrast_dri.so', which I'm guessing is a software raster driver. Once I
>
> > figured out that I needed this library (again, several hours), the
>
> > forthcoming fix was trivial:
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> >
>
> > I'm using Centos 8, and I easily found the package that provides it:
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> >
>
> > % dnf provides '*/swrast_dri.so'
>
> > ...
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> > mesa-dri-drivers-19.3.4-2.el8.x86_64 : Mesa-based DRI drivers
>
> > Repo : @System
>
> > Matched from:
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> > Filename : /usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so
>
> > ...
>
> >
>
> > Once I installed mesa-dri-drivers, everything worked.
>
> >
>
> > 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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> >
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Your analysis is correct.
>
>
>
> However, X.Org doesn't provide the binary packages, nor do we provide
>
> the data used by various vendors to make their packages. So this
>
> suggestion needs to be sent to the maintainers of the CentOS package,
>
> using https://bugs.centos.org/.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> --
>
> Matthieu Herrb
>
>
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<div><div dir="auto">Ah, thanks for the redirect, I'll look there. </div></div><div \
dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sean</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div \
dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 5:51 AM Matthieu Herrb <<a \
href="mailto:matthieu@herrb.eu">matthieu@herrb.eu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 03:52:52PM -0700, Sean Suchter \
wrote:<br><br>> Hi xorg-folks -<br><br>> <br><br>> Thanks for all the work \
you do that allows the rest of us to use X11.<br><br>> <br><br>> I came across \
an issue today when trying to use Xvfb on a headless Linux<br><br>> server. I \
couldn't figure out why Xvfb would start,but have no framebuffers<br><br>> \
available. (glXGetFBConfigs would always return NULL). I finally (after<br><br>> \
several hours) figured out that the problem was the lack of<br><br>> \
'swrast_dri.so', which I'm guessing is a software raster driver. Once \
I<br><br>> figured out that I needed this library (again, several hours), \
the<br><br>> forthcoming fix was trivial:<br><br>> <br><br>> I'm using \
Centos 8, and I easily found the package that provides it:<br><br>> <br><br>> % \
dnf provides '*/swrast_dri.so'<br><br>> ...<br><br>> \
mesa-dri-drivers-19.3.4-2.el8.x86_64 : Mesa-based DRI drivers<br><br>> Repo \
: @System<br><br>> Matched from:<br><br>> Filename : \
/usr/lib64/dri/swrast_dri.so<br><br>> ...<br><br>> <br><br>> Once I \
installed mesa-dri-drivers, everything worked.<br><br>> <br><br>> My suggestion \
is to make xorg-x11-server-Xvfb depend on mesa-dri-drivers,<br><br>> since it \
obviously wants to use this provided library.<br><br>> \
<br><br><br><br>Hi,<br><br><br><br>Your analysis is correct.<br><br><br><br>However, \
X.Org doesn't provide the binary packages, nor do we provide<br><br>the data used \
by various vendors to make their packages. So this<br><br>suggestion needs to be \
sent to the maintainers of the CentOS package,<br><br>using <a \
href="https://bugs.centos.org/" rel="noreferrer" \
target="_blank">https://bugs.centos.org/</a>.<br><br><br><br>Best regards,<br><br>-- \
<br><br>Matthieu Herrb<br><br></blockquote></div></div>
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