Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:18:49AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:40:58AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:28:39AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > On the installation in question the Xservers file has everything commented
> > > out. The default-display-manager file contains the line:
> > >
> > > /usr/bin/X11/wdm
> > >
> > > I put the correct line into the Xservers file and wdm comes up as
> > > expected! Thanks! (what process should have put this in?)
> >
> > High-priority debconf questions from gdm, kdm, wdm, and xdm.
>
> One thing, though. After Branden's NMU of wdm 1.20-11.2,
> /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers has all X server lines commented out. It used to
> be that the postinst would uncomment one if the user requested it that
> wdm be used to manage :0.
>
> Since the debconf default-display-manager mechanism is now used to
> determine which display manager runs, shouldn't wdm/Xservers contain a
> valid server line for :0?
Just uncommented the last line in /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers, and wdm ran
perfectly well. It was the reason why wdm did nothing. So it would seem
that postinst (or something) isn't doing the right thing).
Cheers
Dave
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