Re: xdm startup?
Mike Miller <miller5@uiuc.edu> writes:
> I've recently reinstalled Debian 1.3 (on a system with a new
> disk) and found that after installing xbase and xserver-svga, xdm
> wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that
> /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in
> /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist.
>
> Can anyone help me sort out where I went wrong? Or is this a
> feature that I don't understand?
What seems to have happened is that something created an empty
/etc/init.d/xdm file. When it installed xdm, dpkg, finding an
existing file, assumed that you knew what you were doing and so didn't
replace the empty /etc/init.d/xdm - this is the way dpkg behaves with
all files that are considered "configuration files". As to how to
hunt down what caused the empty /etc/init.d/xdm, I'm not sure.
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