Bug#490580: xdm does not automatically run on startup

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Christoph Egger wrote:
> Julien Cristau schrieb:
>   
>> On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 22:49:21 +0200, Christoph Egger wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi Christoph,
>>
>> what's in /etc/X11/default-display-manager?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Julien
>>
>>     
>
> Hi
>
> It says /usr/bin/xdm
>   

Does the problem only occur with xdm?

Brice