Bug#276034: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#276034: xdm postinst dies when shared/default-x-display-manager/daemon_name not found)
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.
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.
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.
has changing the default-display-manager to a non-existant file
confused the deb_conf upgrade process?
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 06:03:11 -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System
<owner@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> The template's own name should not be a choice.
>
> I have seen this myself on some systems that have been steadily upgraded
> through the lifetime of unstable since woody was released; but Joey Hess
> was never able to find the cause.
>
> It is possible some brain-damaged maintainer script in a display manager
> package did this. I'm pretty sure xdm never did, as I have always used the
> method documented in the debconf manual.
>
> That is:
>
> db_metaget $template owners
> owners=3D$RET
> db_subst $template choice "$owners"
>
> You might see if one of your installed display managers is doing things a
> bit differently.
>
> If no package in woody did things wrongly, I'm not sure this is worth
> cleaning up after in the packages. You can un-corrupt your debconf
> database from the command line with debconf-communicate(1).
>
> Closing.
>
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