On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:33:38AM -0600, gvl@phorce1.com wrote: > Note to the other two maintainers. Branden has closed the bug I > submitted. Based on the information he provided to me in his message I > feel that you also should close the bugs I submitted against gdm and > wdm. They should possibly be re-submitted at a lesser severity, but not > as critical. Please read my message below and determine for yourself. > > Branden, I've just subscribed to debian-users and have yet to get any > messages after my confirmation. Please feel free to forward this if my > CC dosn't go through. > > Hmm, Just re-read my bug-report message. Used too much cut/paste to post > the three reports. As stated in the final paragraph, I do NOT have xdm > installed right now, I have wdm. So I relied on the fact that all 3 > packages defaulted to tty7 and that it is applied by the wdm.postinst > script... Thank you for your calm reply to my very aggravated message. I did in fact download the sources to the standard getty program that we use and started poking around for a solution. I don't know if we'll be able to implement a final solution to this problem in time for the potato release (which will hopefully be soon), but here's what I think: 1) Modifying /etc/inittab would be a bad idea because it's a very sensitive thing; if a buggy package screws it up you may be very, very sorry. 2) I think a better approach would be to modify the X server and console getty programs to use lock files on the console devices. I'll want to chat with some people I trust about file locking issues (say, MDA maintainers :) ) before starting to hack on this. I guess this solution would go for programs like openvt as well. It would ultimately become Policy, but first I want to have a workable solution in place. I did some experimenting this evening and I've found that no programs seem to have any respect for any others when it comes to pouncing on a VC. getty will step on X, X will step on getty, X will step on X, etc. Permit me to *beseech* the other display manager maintainers to not modify the conffiles of another package, if that's what you're doing. I expect [gkw]dm to have their own config directories under /etc/X11/ and not fool with mine. I would do you the same courtesy, and besides, policy says you shouldn't. :) Anyway, anyone who wants to work on this issue should subscribe to debian-x and help hash it out. -- G. Branden Robinson | Suffer before God and ye shall be Debian GNU/Linux | redeemed. God loves us, so He makes us branden@ecn.purdue.edu | suffer Christianity. roger.ecn.purdue.edu/~branden/ | -- Aaron Dunsmore
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