Annoying messages on .xsession-errors

[datanalytics.com]

Binary package hint: xfce4-utils

Please, read the bug description and patch at

http://extats.blogspot.com/2010/03/annoying-error-message-from-startxfce4.html

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for submitting this bug report. Please attach as plain text attachments, your ~/.xsession-error file with the errors. Also attach the patch.

[datanalytics.com (cgb-datanalytics)]

These are the lines that appeared in the .xsession-error files:

<stdin>:1:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #Those
<stdin>:2:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #or
<stdin>:3:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #Xft
<stdin>:4:3: error: invalid preprocessing directive #Xft

These "warnings", not errors, can be eliminated if the # is replaced by ! for comment lines in the

/etc/xdg/xfce4/Xft.xrdb

file as indicated in the xrdb man page.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for the information. This bug should now have enough information for the developers to resolve it, so I am marking it confirmed.

I have reported this upstream.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xfce4-utils - 4.7.2-0ubuntu1

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xfce4-utils (4.7.2-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * Upload to natty (pkg-xfce svn r4618), remaining Ubuntu changes:
    - debian/control:
      + use our Vcs-* fields
      + build-depends on libdbus-glib-1-dev (>= 0.33)
      + drop the libxml-parser-perl dep (migration script disabled)
    - debian/rules:
      + pass --with-vendor-info=Xubuntu to dh_auto_configure
      + pass --disable-xfconf-migration to drop the 4.6 migration script and
        desktop file (LP: #587933)
    - debian/preinst: Clean up migration script on upgrade. This needs to be
      kept until after the next LTS.

  * debian/Xubuntu: dropped, will be part of xubuntu-default-settings, to allow
    translations. lp: #656869

xfce4-utils (4.7.2-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

  [ Yves-Alexis Perez ]
  * New upstream development release.
    - fix annoying messages in .xsession-errors lp: #539247, Closes: #567300
    - fix spelling error in xfhelp4 script Closes: #534850
  * debian/control:
    - refresh build-deps for Xfce 4.7
    - bump standards version to 3.9.1
    - add build-dep on hardening-includes
  * debian/patches:
    - 01_xflock4-test-running-screensaver refreshed.
    - 02_use-Xsessions.options-for-ssh-agent-handling dropped, Xfce has an
      internal parameter so it can now be disabled there.
  * debian/rules:
    - pick {C,LD}FLAGS from dpkg-buildflags.
    - add hardening flags to {C,LD}FLAGS
    - create /usr/share/xfce4 folder before installing vendor info.

  [ Lionel Le Folgoc ]
  * debian/rules: force $docdir to /usr/share/doc/xfce4-utils, and drop
    $libexecdir, unneeded.
  * debian/control: add myself to Uploaders.
 -- Lionel Le Folgoc <email address hidden> Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:45:01 +0100