Changeset 100652 in vbox

Timestamp:

Jul 19, 2023 2:27:22 PM (17 months ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

FE/Qt: bugref:10486. Do not instantiate QApplication if no active display server is detected on Linux.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/main.cpp (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/src/main.cpp

@@ -397 +397 @@
             break;
         VBGHDISPLAYSERVERTYPE enmDisplayServerType = VBGHDisplayServerTypeDetect();
-        /* Default to X11 if anything else was found: */
+        /* Abort before instantiating QApplication in case no active display server can be found to
+         * prevent QApplication from aborting:  */
         if (enmDisplayServerType == VBGHDISPLAYSERVERTYPE_NONE)
-            enmDisplayServerType = VBGHDISPLAYSERVERTYPE_X11;
+        {
+            iResultCode = 1;
+            Log(("We could not detect an active display server. Exiting."));
+            RTStrmPrintf(g_pStdErr, "No active display server, X11 or Wayland, detected. Exiting.\n");
+            break;
+        }
         if (VBGHDisplayServerTypeIsXAvailable(enmDisplayServerType))
             /* Force using Qt platform plugin 'xcb', we have X11 specific code: */