Bug#219311: xdm: Default install missing referenced config files

[sand@blarg.net]

Branden Robinson writes:
> > "Xsetup" and "Xreset" are referenced in the config file, but they no
> > longer exist on disk.  This causes "xdm" to bomb out on startup.
> 
> I suspect your xdm daemon is in fact exiting for another reason.  Are
> there any error messages in /var/log/xdm.log?

The log file was showing this:

[[...blah blah blah...]]
  GetModeLine - scrn: 0 clock: 135000
  GetModeLine - hdsp: 1280 hbeg: 1296 hend: 1440 httl: 1688
                vdsp: 1024 vbeg: 1025 vend: 1028 vttl: 1066 flags: 5
  SetGrabKeysState - enabled
[[...I exit out of XDM to restart it after an update...]]
  Thu Nov  6 07:06:09 2003 xdm error (pid 14156): can't execute "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset" (err 2)
  (EE) [GLX]: Failed to add GLX extension (NVIDIA XFree86 driver not found)
  Thu Nov  6 07:06:11 2003 xdm info (pid 510): starting X server on :0
  Thu Nov  6 07:06:11 2003 xdm error (pid 14163): can't execute "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup" (err 2)
  Thu Nov  6 07:06:15 2003 xdm error (pid 14232): can't execute "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset" (err 2)
  (EE) [GLX]: Failed to add GLX extension (NVIDIA XFree86 driver not found)
  Thu Nov  6 07:06:17 2003 xdm info (pid 510): starting X server on :0
  Thu Nov  6 07:06:17 2003 xdm error (pid 14239): can't execute "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup" (err 2)
  Thu Nov  6 07:06:21 2003 xdm error (pid 14308): can't execute "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset" (err 2)

So it exited, started up, exited shortly thereafter, started up again,
exited shortly thereafter, etc.  Something was screwed up.

>From your comments, it looks like XDM was handling the missing Xsetup
and Xreset files correctly.  The message just needs to be downgraded
from "xdm error" to "xdm warning".

The more interesting issue is that the normal X server messages are
missing.  That's why I focused on the XDM errors in the first place.
I expect those missing messages are related to the X failure, but I
can't say for sure because (all together now!) I can't reproduce it.
Running X through XDM is working fine now.

So yeah, either close it, or mark it as a "wishlist" item to change
"error" to "warning".

Thanks,

Derek

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Derek Upham
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