Bug#211825: libc6: breaks xdm on libnss_compat upgrade

[zweije@xs4all.nl (Vincent Zweije)]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.3.2-7
Severity: normal

Involved:

Package: xdm
Version: 4.2.1-6

After the libc6 upgrade last night, everything seemed to go smoothly. The
libnss upgrade (I think) made some services restart. xdm was not among
these.

This morning, xdm login failed, and I was dumped to the console. /var/log/xdm.log
shows the lines below.
The 08:07 is when I logged off.
The 14:34 is I tried to log on.
The 14:40 is after restarting xdm. It works fine now.

    Thu Sep 18 11:09:33 2003 xdm info (pid 22720): starting X server on :0
    Could not init font path element unix/:7110, removing from list!
    Could not init font path element unix/:7000, removing from list!
    Fri Sep 19 11:13:57 2003 xdm info (pid 22720): starting X server on :0
    Could not init font path element unix/:7110, removing from list!
    Could not init font path element unix/:7000, removing from list!
    Sat Sep 20 08:07:11 2003 xdm info (pid 22720): starting X server on :0
    Could not init font path element unix/:7110, removing from list!
    Could not init font path element unix/:7000, removing from list!
    -:0             : relocation error: /lib/libnss_compat.so.2: symbol __nss_lookup_function, version GLIBC_PRIVATE not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference
    Sat Sep 20 14:34:42 2003 xdm error (pid 22720): display :0 (pid 127) exited with unexpected status 31192
    Could not init font path element unix/:7110, removing from list!
    Could not init font path element unix/:7000, removing from list!
    Sat Sep 20 14:34:54 2003 xdm info (pid 22720): exiting
    Sat Sep 20 14:40:50 2003 xdm info (pid 32512): starting
    Sat Sep 20 14:40:50 2003 xdm info (pid 32512): starting X server on :0

I suspect xdm needs a restart after the upgrade of libnss_compat.

A simple "/etc/init.d/xdm restart" is *not* advisable though, as many
(including me) would be thrown out of their root shell in the X session.

Thanks.                                                         Vincent.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux love 2.4.21 #11 Sat Jun 14 00:48:38 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libdb1-compat                 2.1.3-7    The Berkeley database routines [gl

-- no debconf information