failsafeXServer: line 47: [: too many arguments

[Janne Hyötylä]

I ran into this accidentally while testing stuff. I don't know if it's affecting anything, failsafe X seems to work normally.

I intentionally broke the mouse driver entry in xorg.conf. Failsafe X came up and I started the failsafe GDM. Then without logging in or chaning anything I rebooted. After reboot, failsafe X dialog didn't appear anymore but instead the old xorg/gdm blue terminal dialog saying X could not be started and If I wanted to look at the server output.

I chose yes and got the following message:

/etc/gdm/failsafeXServer: line 47: [: too many arguments
Warning: Failsafe mode was already attempted within 30 seconds.
Warning: Falling back to gdm to report the issue.

I assume the last 2 lines are ok and do appear by design. But the first line looks line there is somewhere a bug/typo in the script.

[Basilio Kublik (sourcercito)]

could you try enclosing the serverargs variable between quotation marks, in /etc/gdm/failsafeXServer file at line 47

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

Works, the error message is gone.

[Ant (antauen)]

Few time next my Gutsy Gibbon upgrade, I confirm this issur, exactly the same case.
I don't manage to resolve it . . .

[Ant (antauen)]

Yupi, reading that http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580370, I have did what it said and all is ok.
Bye

[Diego Foglino (biker84)]

I have nvidia geforce 6600gt and no fglrx driver. I have nvidia-glx-new (version 100....). How resolve this problem?

[Henrik Nilsen Omma (henrik)]

Bryce, looks like a corner case where bullet-proof-x fails to work.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I saw this as well, after a rough Hardy upgrade where the nvidia module went missing.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xorg - 1:7.3+9ubuntu2

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xorg (1:7.3+9ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low

  [ Basilio Kublik ]
  * failsafeXServer: Add quotation marks to serverargs variable
    (LP: #151388).

 -- Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden> Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:06:24 +0200