Ubuntu
brltty package

xbrlapi debugging message spamming .xsession-errors; please silence it.

Bug #1579531 reported by TJ
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brltty (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Wishlist
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Bug Description

16.04 amd64.

$HOME/.xsession-errors contains cryptic messages that do not indicate where they come from. They turn out to be harmless but it would be good if they at least were prefixed with the source.

openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at :0

They indicate the absence of a braille tty so how about:

xbrlapi: Cannot find a Braille Teletype device
xbrlapi: cannot connect to brltty at :0

Tags: xenial
TJ (tj)
Changed in brltty (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Samuel thibault (samuel-thibault) wrote :

I have suggested a patch to Dave, upstream maintainer of brltty

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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

This error is polluting .xsession-errors on yakkety too.

openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
cannot connect to brltty at :0

Glancing at such error , i've found that answer from a Debian dev:

> openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
> cannot connect to brltty at :0

That's no error, they're just debugging messages. They come from xbrlapi which
is trying to connect to a braille display but you have none so it can't. Nothing
to worry about.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=728947

So what is only needed is to silence this debugging message from xbrlapi.
This may affect most of the users, as they does not have use of braille.

tags: added: yakkety
dino99 (9d9)
summary: - openConnection: connect: No such file or directory
+ xbrlapi debugging message spamming .xsession-errors; please silence it.
tags: added: xenial
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

xbrlapi 5.4 on yakkety seems clean now; nothing logged into xsession-errors.

tags: removed: yakkety
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