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Bug#482527: xorg: login by startx broken. System unusable.



Dear David,

Many thanks for that! I'll give it a go later this morning.

With best wishes,

Adam

On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 7:52 AM, David A. Harding <dave@dtrt.org> wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:52:40AM +0100, Adam Bartley wrote:
> Fatal server error:
> Unrecognized option: /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
>
> I am happy to try to run any suggested work-arounds.

Hi Adam,

After rebooting today, I had the same problem.  It appears that a recent
change messed up the shell script /usr/bin/startx.  To work around the
problem, I changed the following lines:

       if [ -f $userserverrc ]; then
           defaultserverargs=$userserverrc
       elif [ -f $sysserverrc ]; then
           defaultserverargs=" "
       fi

To:

       if [ -f $userserverrc ]; then
           defaultserverargs=$userserverrc
       elif [ -f $sysserverrc ]; then
           #defaultserverargs=$sysserverrc
           defaultserverargs=" "
       fi

If you need any help, please don't hesitate to send me an email.

-Dave

P.S. The developers found this bug's cause in another bug report:

       http://bugs.debian.org/482425
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