Bug#215764: libc6 stops XDM client connections.

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 17:05, Phil Carinhas wrote:
>  Installing this package causes all XDM clients to fail to connect to
>  the XDM server. This was discovered when upgrading Samba to the
>  samba_3.0.0final-1  version, when it upgraded libc6.
>  Below is the output of the xdm.log file that shows what is failing:
>  Fri Oct 10 13:56:09 2003 xdm info (pid 311): starting X server on dhcp211.galaxy:1 -dhcp211.galaxy:: 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

As the preinst script should have told you, xdm needs to be restarted
manually after libc6 is upgraded.  There doesn't seem to be any feasible
way to make this happen automatically.

p.