Houston, there's a problem

["Marcelo E. Magallon" <mmagallo@debian.org>]

Hi,

 attached is the typescript for the 3.3.6 -> v18 upgrade.  Unpacking
 works.  Yeah.

 Problems:

 * xfs
 
 Starting X font server: xfsusage: /usr/bin/X11/xfs [-config config_file] [-port tcp_port]
 already running.

 uh?

 start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- -background || echo -n " already running"
 
 --background (double hyphen) is a start-stop-daemon option, not a xfs
 one.  [for anyone reading this: change your /etc/fs/config, xfs
 segfaults on start up if the path its trying to read doesn't exist --
 will look into it later if noone beats me to it]

 * xdm

 Starting X display manager: xdm.

 and doesn't start.  Starting the xserver manually:

 Could not find config file!
 - Tried:
       /root/XF86Config
       /etc/XF86Config
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.ysabell
       /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config

 my best guess would be to fix the 3.3.6 servers to look in
 /etc/X11/XF86Config.  Am I missing something obvious here? 

 Trying to log in:

 Aug 30 09:27:27 ysabell PAM_unix[189]: (su) session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
 Aug 30 09:27:44 ysabell PAM_unix[233]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> **unknown** for xdm service
 Aug 30 09:28:05 ysabell PAM_unix[221]: (login) session opened for user marcelo by LOGIN(uid=0)
 Aug 30 09:28:11 ysabell su[252]: + tty2 marcelo-root
 Aug 30 09:28:11 ysabell PAM_unix[252]: (su) session opened for user root by marcelo(uid=1000)

 sorry, I don't grok PAM and I don't think I can learn it in the five
 minutes I have left here.

 Greetings,


                                        Marcelo