Re: XDM with Debian 1.3E6
Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu> writes:
> Whoa... big problems. I checked my /etc/init.d/xdm... it is a zero byte
> file. Apparently, when I installed the system, I never setup xdm. Is there
> some kind of setup script to get xdm on my system working again? I have
> shadowed passwords... and I am looking for a package called xdm, but there does
> not seem to be any.
xdm is part of xbase.
See whether there is another file named xdm.dpkg-<something> that
isn't empty. If there is, rename it to xdm and see if that helps.
You can reinstall xbase more easily than with dselect by finding the
package file and just running `dpkg -i xbase_<whatever>.deb'.
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