Bug#366516: boot process of fresh etch installation does not lead to graphic login: inconsistent paths /usr/bin vs /usr/bin/X11
package xdm
severity 366516 grave
merge 366516 365134
thanks
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 01:01:43PM +0200, Joachim.Wuttke@frm2.tum.de wrote:
> (1) At some stage, startx failed because some scripts expect xdm to reside
> in /usr/bin/X11 whereas etch installed it in /usr/bin. A symbolic link
> helped.
>
> At this stage, if not earlier, I was able to start X11 from tty1 via startx.
>
> (2) /etc/inittab comes with default runlevel=2. It seems that I have to
> change this manually.
By default there is no difference between runlevels 2-5 in Debian, so
you do not have to change anything in /etc/inittab.
> (3) After the n-th reboot, no progress: still a vt100 login to tty1
> instead of the graphic X11 login screen. At last, I found an enlightening
> message in xdm.log: "server /usr/bin/X cannot be executed" "server open
> failed for :0, giving up" and so on. Another link towards /usr/bin/X11
> helped.
This bug is caused by missing dependency on x11-common from unstable,
and was already reported as #365134.
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