Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > > > Since debian defaults to use xfs to provide X server with fonts, > > > base-config should start it before starting *dm. Currently it seems > > > not to be started automatically during initial installation. > > > > It's news to me that we use xfs by default; it is not part of > > x-window-system-core, and X includes a built-in font server. > > > > Also, like most other daemons in Debian, xfs is started automatically > > when it is installed. > > > > Could you describe the actual problem you ran into, please? > > Well, probably I was wrong with "default" - actually, it is difficult to > say what is "default" in this case. > > - XF86Config generated by dexconf does reference local xfs, and includes > more font paths only "if the local font server has problems" (quoted from > comment in generated XF86Config-4) Makes sense, if you have a font server, you want to use it. However, most systems do not have a font sever, and X goes with the fallback fontpath entries. > - xfs is NOT start automatically by it's postinst, because in general case > it is not safe. In particular, restarting xfs on package upgrade while it > is in use by local or remote X server may cause that X server and/or it's > clients to misbehave or crash. Probably xfs postinst may be modified to > start xfs on initial install unconditionally, while not touching a running > daemon on upgrade, but at this moment it is not done. At least, on initial > installation of what is in testing now, xfs is not started automatically. > > - if xfs was installed during the initial install process, it will be > started after reboot. So, if it is not started also by base-config, X will > get different configuration before and after reboot. This is bad IMHO. > > So it is better for base-config to start xfs if it was installed. At least > it won't do any harm, and will make system more consistent. I don't think it's base-config's job to work around what looks like a bug in xdm for not starting the daemon on initial install. Forwarding to the XSF. -- see shy jo
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