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Bug#134714: marked as done (xserver-common: system did not migrate away from /etc/X11/Xserver cleanly on upgrade from potato to woody)

Your message dated Wed, 07 Feb 2007 11:43:13 +0100
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and subject line Bug#134714: xserver-common: system did not migrate away from /etc/X11/Xserver
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: xdm
Version: 4.1.0-13
Severity: normal

Hello, recently I upgraded from Debian potato to woody and found that xdm
wouldn't start any more. There turned out to be two bugs: 

1) xdm (or some script called by /etc/init.d/xdm; I really got totally lost in all that
stuff) tries to start the binary "/etc/X11/X" which of course isn't there. I
worked around this by making a symbolic link from my actual Xserver binary to
/etc/X11/X:

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dh@kir:/etc/X11$ ls -l X
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root    26 Feb 18 09:44 X -> /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_3DLabs*
dh@kir:/etc/X11$ 
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For some reason or other, the correct contents of the file /etc/X11/Xserver
seem to be ignored:

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dh@kir:/etc/X11$ cat Xserver
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_3DLabs
Console

The first line in this file is the full pathname of the default X server.
The second line shows who is allowed to run the X server:
RootOnly
Console      (anyone whose controlling tty is on the console)
Anybody

dh@kir:/etc/X11$
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2) The Xserver was looking for XF86Config in /etc, not in /etc/X11 (where it
always was). A symbolic link fixed that, too. I don't know if this is an xdm
bug or an xserver-3dlabs bug.

Maybe I overlooked something during the configurarion process in the upgrade. 

Thanks for maintaining xdm,
**Daniel


-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux kir 2.2.14-rtl2.3 #3 Thu Sep 27 15:55:52 CEST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xdm depends on:
ii  cpp                           2:2.95.4-9 The GNU C preprocessor.
ii  debconf                       1.0.25     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.2.5-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpam0g                      0.72-9     Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libxaw7                       4.1.0-13   X Athena widget set library
ii  xbase-clients                 4.1.0-13   miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                         4.1.0-13   X Window System client libraries

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--- Begin Message --- 
Closing, as suggested by the submitter. If anybody ever reproduces this
bug, feel free to reopen.

Brice

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