Package: wdm Version: 1.28-19 Severity: serious If you install wdm on a minimal Debian system, you don't get a working login manager, but error messages about not finding /usr/bin/X in the syslog.
Installing xserver-xorg-core suffices to make wdm start up, but no input device (mouse, keyboard) works. Installing one of the xserver-xorg-input packages is needed, too. The sanest approach to this issue seems to be the one by sddm by adding a dependency on "xserver-xorg | xserver". (xserver-org pulls in xserver-org-core, at least one xserver-org-video and one xserver-org-input package; the xserver alternative is for flexibility when needing wdm only for a non-standard X server, e.g. a virtual X server.) So I plan to follow sddm's example and plan to add a dependency on "xserver-xorg | xserver". -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages wdm depends on: ii cdebconf [debconf-2.0] 0.227 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.60 ii libc6 2.24-10 ii libpam-modules 1.1.8-3.5 ii libpam-runtime 1.1.8-3.5 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.5 ii libselinux1 2.6-3+b1 ii libwings3 0.95.7-8 ii libwraster5 0.95.7-8 ii libwutil5 0.95.7-8 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3 ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1 ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b3 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2 ii psmisc 22.21-2.1+b2 ii x11-apps 7.7+6+b1 ii x11-common 1:7.7+18 ii x11-utils 7.7+3+b1 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+7+b1 wdm recommends no packages. Versions of packages wdm suggests: ii xfonts-base 1:1.0.4+nmu1 -- Configuration Files: /etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/X11/wdm/wdm-config' -- debconf information: wdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/wdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: wdm
