[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#704534: base: Concurrency on ressource access when connecting with same user on multiple terminals. Might be a design problem.

[Philippe Errembault]

Package: base
Severity: normal


When logging to the X-window system from multiple terminals, using
XDMCP, various problems happen which seem partly related with the way
the DISPLAY variable is used, and partly related with the fact that they
have concurrent access on some files.

- The upadate manager, just doesn't even start from a remote terminal. Only
  in local.
- the epiphany browser has troubles because it doesn't detect the
  browser started on another terminal, but detects the existing
  temporary files, and thinks it comes from a previous crashed session
  while the other session is still active.
- the chromium browser opens new window on the terminal where chromium
  application is already active instead of on the terminal on which it
  has been asked. 5this is a problem with chromium, but is it normal
  that the x-windows system allows it ?

Those are juste examples. there might be likewise other problems.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.7
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash