Bug#348460: xdm: xserver stopped during upgrade

[Kirk Hilliard <kirk@debian.org>]

Package: xdm
Version: 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: fixed

The prerm script for xdm 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3 contains these lines:

  # Automatically added by dh_installinit
  if [ -x "/etc/init.d/xdm" ]; then
        if [ -x "`which invoke-rc.d 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
                invoke-rc.d xdm stop || exit 0
        else
                /etc/init.d/xdm stop || exit 0
        fi
  fi
  # End automatically added section

Stopping xdm kills the current X session, so if you are upgrading
from within X, the xdm package will be left in a broken state.

This is fixed in 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4, so the purpose of this bug report is
just to let users following unstable know what happened, as the bug
only reveals itself when upgrading away from 6.9.0.dfsg.1-3.

So, if your X session was killed during the upgrade, just finish
upgrading xdm from your console.  Something like:

  # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/xdm_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_*.deb

or

  # dpkg --configure -a
  # apt-get install xdm


followed by

  # /etc/init.d/xdm restart

Kirk