> Am 29.12.2022 um 16:29 schrieb David Malcolm <dmalcolm@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > On Thu, 2022-12-29 at 13:03 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 09:17:28PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: >>> Vít Ondruch wrote: >>>> Dne 22. 12. 22 v 9:56 Olivier Fourdan napsal(a): >>>>> When the connection fails, the Xserver returns a reason in >>>>> plain text. >>>>> In that case, the reason for the connection being rejected >>>>> would be >>>>> „Swapped clients prohibited“. >>>> >>>> Appreciate that there is at least some explanation, but if I saw >>>> this >>>> error, I would not be much smarter what is going on and how >>>> should I >>>> proceed .... >>> >>> Yes, that's a really bad error message. My reaction would be "What >>> nonsense is that? I haven't swapped any clients." If it had at >>> least >>> said "byte-swapped" it would probably have gotten me searching in >>> the >>> right direction, but if the X server wants to be helpful it should >>> say >>> "big/little-endian mismatch; the option AllowSwappedClients is >>> off". >> >> Thanks, I've changed the error message to say `byte-swapped`, it >> hasn't >> been merged upstream yet after all. This particular message is >> handled >> in the DDX-independent bits though (shared code for Xorg, Xwayland, >> etc.), the option AllowSwappedClients only exists for Xorg since the >> other X server don't have an xorg.conf. > > Could the error message include a URL to documentation about the config > option? That would really help discoverability. I would also strongly advocate / asking to make the (error) message more detailed. So don't just make it "byte-swapped" but refer to the configurability , even if it's just a "see <file>.conf“. Especially if something has worked before, this is very important. -- Peter Boy https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Pboy pboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Timezone: CET (UTC+1) / CEST (UTC+2) Fedora Server Edition Working Group member Fedora docs team contributor Java developer and enthusiast _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
