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Re: Potato to Woody upgrade problem



On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 09:08:15AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:53:38AM -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote:
> > > I copied XF86Config from my old Woody system into the newly upgraded
> > > system and, while startx works just fine, wdm starts up but doesn't start
> > > the server, or log any messages in /var/log/wdm.log. (the log file exists,
> > > but is empty) (current version of wdm is: 1.20-11.2)
> > 
> > What's in /etc/X11/default-display-manager and /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers?
> 
> There is no file /etc/X11/default-display-manager. What should it contain?
> 
> /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers has the one uncommented line:
> 
> :0 local /usr/bin/X11/X vt7 -deferglyphs 16

I thought I should add an <AOL>me too</AOL> to this. wdm starts up but
does absolotely nothing. xdm (which I gave up on after numerous versions
wouldn't let me log in) works quite happily.

Using kernel 2.4.9, xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-6, same version of wdm, using
a mix of unstable and testing.

Cheers
	Dave



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