Control: severity -1 important Hi! On Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:02:15 +0100 Alessandro Ghedini <ghedo@debian.org> wrote: > Control: tags -1 patch > > On sab, ago 23, 2014 at 09:30:24 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2014-08-23 19:52 +0200, Kan-Ru Chen (陳侃如) wrote: > > > > > Package: xdm > > > Version: 1:1.1.11-1 > > > Severity: important > > > > > > The xdm upstream ships a xdm.service file however it is not include in > > > the xdm debian package. > > > > It would probably make sense to ship it, but care must be taken not to > > enable the service unless xdm is the default display manager. > > I wrote a patch that makes the display-manager.service systemd thing work with > xdm (see attached patch). The patch does: > > 1 Patches the systemd service file to not start unless xdm is the default > manager (as per /etc/X11/default-display-manager). > 2 Removes the [Install] section in the systemd service file so that if the user > manually enables the service it does nothing (so that it doesn't conflict with > the default manager). > 3 Creates the /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service in postinst if xdm is > the dfault manager. > 4 Installs the systemd service file. > > Note that 1 and 3 above actually come from the lightdm package (I only removed > the part where it reloads dbus, which is not used by xdm). I'm bumping the severity of this bug report back to important. Without a native .service file and xdm setting up the /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service symlink, a lot of strange thinks can happen, like repeated start attempts of multiple display managers. For jessie we shipped a hack which mitigated a few of those problems, but not under all conditions. This is a Debian specific patch, which we are going to get rid of for Stretch and it will be removed in unstable soonish. Regards, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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