Command-line interface doesn't work without X

[Jukka Merinen]

The command line interface in jockey-gtk for enabling and disabling drivers doesn't really work. It requires an X display to be present, so it can't be used in scripts.

For example, trying to change the display driver with --enable without an X display results in a segfault:

test:~# jockey-gtk --enable xorg:nvidia-180
/var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:72: GtkWarning: could not open display
  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: Warning: invalid (NULL) pointer instance
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: Warning: g_signal_connect_data: assertion `G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: GtkWarning: gtk_settings_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: Warning: g_object_get: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: GtkWarning: gdk_pango_context_get_for_screen: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: PangoWarning: pango_context_set_font_description: assertion `context != NULL' failed
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: PangoWarning: pango_context_set_base_dir: assertion `context != NULL' failed
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: PangoWarning: pango_context_set_language: assertion `context != NULL' failed
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: Warning: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: GtkWarning: gdk_screen_get_display: assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
/usr/bin/jockey-gtk:51: GtkWarning: gdk_keymap_get_for_display: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed
  self.glade = gtk.glade.XML('/usr/share/jockey/main.glade')
Segmentation fault

Occurs in Ubuntu 9.04 with jockey-common version 0.5-0ubuntu10 and jockey-gtk version 0.5-0ubuntu10.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Jockey recently grew a "jockey-text" frontend, will be uploaded soon.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.5.3-0ubuntu1

---------------
jockey (0.5.3-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream release:
    - Add a text frontend, 'jockey-text'. Although the GTK and KDE frontends
      can be launched and scripted command line, they are dependent upon
      DISPLAY being set. This text frontend has the ability to run in a true
      text only environment. (By Mario Limonciello) (LP: #394688)
    - Ported to polkit-1.
  * debian/control: Update policykit dependencies to policykit-1. Drop
    policykit-kde, since it does not exist so far.
  * Merge bug fix from trunk: Move X-KDE-autostart-phase: field from menu to
    autostart .desktop.
  * kde/jockey-kde, kde/jockey-kde.desktop.in: Reintroduce code to run
    frontend as root, since there is no KDE frontend for polkit-1 yet.
  * data/handlers/broadcom_wl.py: rmmod b43 and friends before enabling wl, so
    that it will work on the fly. (LP: #393689)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:27:14 +0200