Bug#365948: Please reopen the KDM bug : your proposed fix to restore Xsession does not make KDM work again

[Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr>]

Eric Valette wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I tried your trick (--force_confmiss) on my totally broken unstable. It 
> indeed added the /etc/X11/Xsession file back again, I managed to do 
> startx as root. Not as a normal user. No trace no nothing. X starts and 
> then fails. It is not only KDE : I changed my own xsession to fvwm 
> without any more luck.
>
> => breakage is more important than just the missing files

OOps : while hunting the bug I found that the Xsession was comming from 
x11-common and restored it manually by doing dpkg -x x11-common /tmp 
which corrupted /tmp 777 permission => my fault.

-- eric