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From: "Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)" <y.karadz@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kernel-shark: Set the DISPLAY environment for pkexec kshark-record
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:42:01 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6658f7ac-00a3-f7fc-50f0-05be82f5ec49@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190723225238.859019956@goodmis.org>



On 24.07.19 г. 1:50 ч., Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> 
> When running a fresh install, I hit this:
> 
>   ERROR:  Capture process failed:
>   Unknown errorqt.qpa.screen: QXcbConnection: Could not connect to display
>   Could not connect to any X display.
> 
> This was due to pkexec not saving the DISPLAY environment variable. To solve
> this, pass that variable as one of the environment variables to pkexec.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> ---
>   kernel-shark/bin/kshark-su-record | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel-shark/bin/kshark-su-record b/kernel-shark/bin/kshark-su-record
> index 7faff1cb3339..8c9fbd02a351 100755
> --- a/kernel-shark/bin/kshark-su-record
> +++ b/kernel-shark/bin/kshark-su-record
> @@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ then
>   fi
>   
>   THIS_DIR=`dirname $0`
> -pkexec ${THIS_DIR}/kshark-record -o ${PWD}/trace.dat
> +pkexec env DISPLAY=${DISPLAY} ${THIS_DIR}/kshark-record -o ${PWD}/trace.dat
> 


Both patches look good to me.
Thanks!
Yordan

Reviewed-by: Yordan Karadzhov (VMware) <y.karadz@gmail.com>

      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-24 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-23 22:50 [PATCH 0/2] kernel-shark: Be more careful with kshark-su-record Steven Rostedt
2019-07-23 22:50 ` [PATCH 1/2] kernel-shark: Execute kshark-record from same dir as kshark-su-record Steven Rostedt
2019-07-25  9:01   ` Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2019-07-25 12:45     ` Steven Rostedt
2019-07-25 13:59       ` Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2019-07-25 14:00       ` Yordan Karadzhov (VMware)
2019-07-23 22:50 ` [PATCH 2/2] kernel-shark: Set the DISPLAY environment for pkexec kshark-record Steven Rostedt
2019-07-24 10:42   ` Yordan Karadzhov (VMware) [this message]

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