Bug#490580: xdm does not automatically run on startup

[Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@gmx.de>]

Package: xdm
Version: 1:1.1.8-1.1
Severity: normal

When booting the system the last message is «Starting X Display Manager:
xdm» but xdm does not startup and I am left on tty1.

loging in and starting xdm via «sudo xdm» works as it should.

I have already purged xdm without fixing the problem. When kdm is set as
default it starts without problems.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.7-custom (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages xdm depends on:
ii  cpp                           4:4.3.1-1  The GNU C preprocessor (cpp)
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libice6                       2:1.0.4-1  X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpam0g                      0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libselinux1                   2.0.59-1   SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                        2:1.0.3-2  X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                      2:1.1.4-2  X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                       1:1.0.3-3  X11 authorisation library
ii  libxaw7                       2:1.0.4-2  X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxdmcp6                     1:1.0.2-3  X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                      2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                       2.1.12-3   FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1                  2:1.0.3-2  X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxmu6                       2:1.0.4-1  X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxpm4                       1:3.5.7-1  X11 pixmap library
ii  libxrender1                   1:0.9.4-2  X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                        1:1.0.5-3  X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-12     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  x11-common                    1:7.3+12   X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc
ii  x11-utils                     7.3+2      X11 utilities
ii  xbase-clients                 1:7.3+12   miscellaneous X clients - metapack

xdm recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm
  xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
  xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/xdm