[Error] XAUTHORITY is not set because host-spawn is not working. Move env setup to distrobox-enter

[tymonx]

[Error] XAUTHORITY is not set because host-spawn is not working. Move env setup to distrobox-enter

[tymonx]

It seems that distrobox enter adds --env XAUTHORITY=${XAUTHORITY} anyway in that generic for-loop: https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/1.7.2.1/distrobox-enter#L443

But still it is not present when doing:

env | grep XAUTHORITY

But if I run created container by distrobox create using podman exec:

podman exec --interactive --tty --detach-keys="" --user=root --workdir="${HOME}" --env XAUTHORITY <container> su "${USER}" --pty

Then the XAUTHORITY environment variable is not empty. I'm trying to narrow the issue here. Above command is also ran by distrobox enter. After podman exec and before <container> the distrobox enter adds bunch of additionals --env. Something is causing that the XAUTHORITY environment variable is unset after switching from root to user.

[tymonx]

Short story. When --env DISPLAY=:0 is present, it will clear XAUTHORITY. I have been using custom AlmaLinux OS 9.3 with added user etc.. Somehow when calling su "${USER}" --pty when switching from root to user by distrobox enter, it clears XAUTHORITY environment variable. With vanilla AlmaLinux OS 9.3 it doesn't happen.

Not working host-spawn in distrobox-init is OK/not relavant for me because it should be fixed by distrobox-enter and --env XAUTHORITY from this loop https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox/blob/1.7.2.1/distrobox-enter#L443

I will try to narrow problem in my custom container image based on AlmaLinux OS 9.3 and share minimum Dockerfile to reproduce that.