Bug#231901: kdm: /etc/X11/default-display-manager filled wrongly
Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.1.3-1
Severity: important
Hi,
after several "apt-get upgrade" (testing) kdm didnt start and executing
"/etc/init.d/kdm start" results in
"Not starting K Desktop Manager (kdm); it is not the default display manager."
(As well as xdm -- no other window managers installed)
After fiddling for a while i found out, that /etc/X11/default-display-manager
contains the following line:
10 kdm/daemon_name doesn't exist
which seems to be an error message of db_get or so. If found the following
line in "/var/lib/dpkg/info/xdm.postinst"
safe_debconf db_get "$DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER"/daemon_name
So this might be a problem of xdm after all!
I can reproduce the whole thing by starting "dpkg-reconfigure xdm" and
switching to "kdm" there. Switching back and forth between xdm and kdm
with "dpkg-reconfigure kdm" fixes the problem.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux complexity 2.4.18-1-k7 #3 Sat Nov 29 10:23:13 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii debconf 1.3.20 Debian configuration management sy
ii kdelibs4 4:3.1.4-3 KDE core libraries
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfam0c102 2.6.10-6 client library to control the FAM
ii libgcc1 1:3.3.2-4 GCC support library
ii libpam0g 0.76-14 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-4 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.1-6 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.2-4 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-4 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii xbase-clients 4.2.1-12.1 miscellaneous X clients
ii xlibs 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.4-16 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information:
* kdm/default_servers_nolisten_tcp:
* kdm/default_servers_100dpi:
* kdm/default_nolisten_udp:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
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