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Bug#163935: xdm does not start / crashes



On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 11:08:55PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:
> I can confirm that this bug happens on 8bit displays. I have just had
> it on an hppa system with the current xdm from unstable (4.2.1-8).
[...]
> X works when started via "startx", so the problem is not in the Xserver.

Well, I wouldn't go that far.  startx works because nothing is trying to
render that pixmap.  If color allocation is busted in the server for
PseudoColor visuals, then we *are* dealing with an X server bug.

> After applying the patch to /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources mentionend 
> in bug #163935 to get a monochrome Debian logo for xdm, xdm starts up.

Okay.

> This bug did not occur with a woody installation which was running on
> the same hardware before, so this problem seems to have been introduced
> with XFree 4.2.

This data point I find most frustrating.  Have you tried downgrading
*only* the xserver-xfree86 package to its woody version?  If you do, can
you reproduce the problem?

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