xdm login loop failure has happend to a newbie
I burned a CD set on friday (european morning) from a local
mirror which was updated with the latest packages from ftp.debian.org
that day. (This was done with slink_cd-1.07 scripts) The CD:s contains
boot-floppies_2.1.8 and XFree86_3.3.2.3a-11.
The CD:s was used by a friend to install Slink this weekend. This friend
is a Linux newbie but despite that a very nice guy.
Everything went VERY WELL except for the xdm login loop.
He 'configured' XFree86 but somehow also got xdm installed and ended
up with the same loop as I had a while ago. He got caught in a
loop where xdm fails and can't get out of it and into the CLI prompt.
I told him this morning to use the <CTRL-ALT-Fx> ( where x=[1..6] ) to get
into the command prompt, use dselect and remove the xdm package.
Unfortunately I don't know the real reason for his xdm failure login
loop. Before it was the Xsession script that had a syntax error but
this is supposed to be fixed by now. I guess and hope it's his XFree86
configuration that isn't correct.
It's way to easy to get xdm installed by accident and I think it will cause
heavy traffic on the Debian mailing-lists after the 2.1 release. This is
definitely Slinks weakest point for the moment.
Would it be to difficult to remove the xdm package from all the standard
selections so I have to install it afterwards. When one of the servers
( XF86_VGA16 ) installs a text could be shown that recommends the
installation of the xdm package when I have a useable Xwindows configuration.
//Gunnar Isaksson
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