On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:31:10PM +0200, Norman Rasmussen wrote: > okay, help me out a bit here.... > > I assume that the deb_conf database is configuration registry, but I'm > not sure what the values _should_ be. A list of package names that provide X display managers. $ debconf-show xdm debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/X11/xdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm > I'm happy to run debconf-communicate to get & set values, but what > should the values be? I only have xdm installed, and there really > shouldn't be kdm, or gdm installed anywhere. In that case, your output should look just about identical to mine, above. > I think that the script is trying to migrate > /etc/X11/default-display-manager into deb_conf's database, but now > it's /etc/X11/default-display-manager.dpkg-tmp (as part of the upgrade > process no doubt) and it contains /usr/bin/X11/xdm-disabled > and I want xdm not to start by default. Er, uh, what? I have no idea what "xdm-disabled" is and I'm pretty it has nothing to do with anything I've ever packaged. > has changing the default-display-manager to a non-existant file > confused the deb_conf upgrade process? Possibly. However, the system should be robust enough to cope with that, by complaining about the bogus value and simply not starting a display manager at all. -- G. Branden Robinson | Psychology is really biology. Debian GNU/Linux | Biology is really chemistry. branden@debian.org | Chemistry is really physics. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Physics is really math.
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