Bug#362940: Latest update broke gdm and can't find default fixed font

[Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo@datahost.it>]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 01:16:57 +0100 Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:

> This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said:
> > On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 06:14:33PM +0200, Riccardo Magliocchetti wrote:
> > > Package: xserver-xorg
> > > Version: 1:7.0.12
> > > Severity: grave
> > > Justification: renders package unusable
> > 
> > > upgrading to xorg-xserver version 7.0.12 broke my system. GDM complains 
> > > because it cannot find xserver executable:
> > 
> > > GDM: Xserver not found: /usr/X11R6/bin/X ...
> > > ERROR: Command cannot be executed
> > 
> > This should not be possible.  Your reportbug template claims that you have
> > x11-common 1:7.0.12 installed, but this package provides both /usr/bin/X,
> > and /usr/X11R6/bin as a symlink to /usr/bin.
> > 
> > Please provide the output of these commands:
> > 
> > $ ls -ld /usr/X11R6/bin /usr/X11R6/bin/X /usr/bin/X
> > $ dpkg -l x11-common
> 
> This is possible if you have xearth installed - it sits in
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X, and the upgrade path doesn't install the symlink,
> leaving you without a working /usr/X11R6/bin/X for gdm.  Uninstalling
> xearth and redoing the upgrade fixed it here.

It was opera in my case. Thank you and Steve for helping out.

cheers,
rm