On Fri 24 Aug, Philip Blundell wrote: > > Basically the essence of the bug is that on my potato RiscPC connecting > >to xdm causes xdm to crash (more diagnostics available in the report). I > >was wondering if anyone either (a) has a woody version of this installed > >(if it works on all woody then the bug can be ignored from an arm point of > >view I guess) or has gdm installed on an arm system (I'm told that the > >core code in gdm decends from the xdm code). If both xdm and gdm in woody > >have this bug then it might even be a good idea to reassign the bug to > >both, and make it release critical.
> I don't think we have an up to date xdm in woody right now. > I certainly used to be able to run gdm successfully on my netwinder under > potato, though I haven't tried it recently. Is this a new bug, or has it > always been there for you? I don't think xdm has ever worked on a Risc-PC (since at least 2.2r0 when I first started using this stuff). I forget what went wrong - it propably just hung or segfaulted. gdm did work however. I haven't checked recent status. Wookey -- Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel (00 44) 1223 811679 work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://www.chaos.org.uk/~wookey/
