Bug#390526: x11-common: /etc/X11/Xsession is not executable

[Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@web.de>]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 15:18:56 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Nov  7, 2006 at 09:03:17 +0100, Tino Keitel wrote:
> 
> > Package: x11-common
> > Version: 1:7.1.0-5
> > Followup-For: Bug #390526
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I installed Etch on 2006-11-04 and this bug broke the wdm package, making it
> > unable to start an X session:
> > 
> > user.err: Nov  4 20:13:02 wdm: /etc/X11/wdm/Xsession: line 10: /etc/X11/Xsession: Permission denied
> > user.err: Nov  4 20:13:02 wdm: /etc/X11/wdm/Xsession: line 10: exec: /etc/X11/Xsession: cannot execute: Success
> > 
> Hi,
> 
> Other display managers source /etc/X11/Xsession instead of executing it,
> and that works fine.  What makes you think that this is a bug in
> x11-common rather than in the display manager you are using?

Nothing. I just checked another Etch system that was upgraded from
Sarge:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3929 Jun 12 05:40 /etc/X11/Xsession

So I thought that this missing permission could be unintended. But I
already forwarded my last comment to the wdm bug #386302, that covers
the same problem.

Regards,
Tino