Environment inside SimpleAPTClient lacks $DISPLAY
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100
- Issue type
- Bug
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- operating-systems
Research direction
Start at the SimpleAPTClient entry point and reproduce the issue with aptkit 1.0.4 and mintupdate 7.0.7.1, checking whether $DISPLAY is present in the environment used by apt-listchanges. Done means apt-listchanges opens its separate window instead of falling back to the console and freezing update progress.
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Description
Hello everyone
There is an issue from several months ago in mintupdate; $DISPLAY isn't propagated any more inside the SimpleAPTClient used: https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/issues/918
This breaks e.g. apt-listchanges since it depends on $DISPLAY to open a separate window above mintupdate. Without $DISPLAY, apt-listchanges falls back to console and the update progress freezes. You have to open the detailed console view, quit the console pager that apt-listchanges opened and then confirm the prompt if installation should be continued.
This is currently reproducible on aptkit 1.0.4 and mintupdate 7.0.7.1. I first noticed it, AFAIR, after upgrading to Mint 22 or 22.1.
Using the git pickaxe I couldn't find anything about $DISPLAY in this repo. As I'm not familiar with both projects and on limited free time, I beg your pardon that I cannot provide more specific details. If I can do anything specific to help to diagnose and correct this, please let me know.
Best regards
Björn
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