Bug#175618: marked as done (xdm fails to start X)
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From: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
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Subject: xdm fails to start X
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Package: xdm
Version: 4.2.1-4
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
the init.d xdm script fails to start X. "xdm" from the command line
also fails to start X. i can start it just fine with "startx", though.
hope this helps.
alex.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux tess-turbo 2.4.18-newpmac #1 Thu Mar 14 22:44:49 EST 2002 ppc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages xdm depends on:
ii cpp 2:2.95.4-17 The GNU C preprocessor.
ii debconf 1.2.21 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam0g 0.76-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libxaw7 4.2.1-4 X Athena widget set library
ii xbase-clients 4.2.1-4 miscellaneous X clients
ii xlibs 4.2.1-4 X Window System client libraries
-- debconf information:
xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/X11/xdm
shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm
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From: Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Bug#175618: xdm fails to start X
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On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:54:14AM -0500, Alex Coventry wrote:
> below is the output of the commands you suggested, after attempting to
> run xdm again. there are no processes with the name "xdm", and the
> contents of the Xservers file looks sane. the modification time on that
> file is from Dec 8 last year. between then and last night, when i ran
> into this problem, the machine has been rebooted and successfully
> restarted xdm.
Sounds like some sort of transient problem specific to your machine.
Closing this bug.
> to me it looks like the xdm package is rendered unusable by xdm failing
> to start X, and that matched the "grave" severity option in the list
> provided by reportbug. what bug severity would you suggest?
When the report is this vague and unreproducible, "important" at worst.
If you can reproduce or isolate the cause of this problem, please
re-file.
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