Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #676
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:28:17 -0800
From: Kenward Vaughan <kaynjay@igalaxy.net>
To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: XFree 4.0.1 and xdm
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On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:07:03AM -0500, Scott Patterson wrote:
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>> >I=B4ve succesfully installed Woody and XFree 4.0.1-8 last weekend. Only
>> >xdm shows a strange behavior. It starts nearly one minute after the
>> >system has bootet. It=B4s possiblke to login to a console, and suddenly
>> >xdm awakes. Any ideas?
>> >
>> >Regards, Sven
>>
>> I had/have the same problem. Probably not what you want to hear, but I simply
>> removed XDM from starting up by running "update-rc.d xdm remove". This will
>> remove xdm from all your startup scripts.
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>You'll need to change that to "update-rc.d -f xdm remove" to force removal
>of the links.
I always forget the "-f" and end up having to run it again with the "-f".
Someday I'll rememeber:)
>> Now that I think of it, I should just purge the package since I don't really
>> want it. It must have been installed when I updated to XFree 4.0.1-x!
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>It comes with other things under the umbrella task-x-windows-system package.
>I expect you'll want to remove that package after dumping xdm so it doesn't
>get brought in on your next upgrade. (IIUTC, trashing the task package
>won't touch the underlying apps.)
Good point. I never though about that.
Scott
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