Bug#362149: reopened

[Alex Romosan <romosan@sycorax.lbl.gov>]

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> writes:

> I've reopened this bug because xdm 1:1.0.1-5 remains broken exactly as
> before; xdm-config refers to a nonexistant Xsetup_0, and if I fix that
> xdm still fails on login with this in the log:
>
> error opening security policy file /usr/lib/xserver/SecurityPolicy
>
> (Note: I purged xdm and reinstalled it, this is not old conffiles.)

the problem is actually with /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: it doesn't seem to
source the system Xsession. so in xdm-config i changed
DisplayManager*session to /etc/X11/Xsession and now i can log in. hope
this helps. of course, /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession should be fixed, i guess.

--alex--

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