Package: xbase Version: 3.1.2-8 I upgraded X to ELF from .99R6, and after going through xbase, xfnt*, xlib and some clients, xdm didn't start the server. I had to re-decipher all the mess of xdm which I obviously had forgotten :-(
The order I did it was xlib, xbase, xfnt*, xserver-s3. It turns out that xbase-configure finds /etc/X11/XF86Config and does not find #debian-not-configured in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. This makes it not #include the line ":0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X" at the end of Xservers, #leaving xdm with no servers to start. I also have a suggestion about fonts: I thought I had installed all the xfnt*, but I had forgotten xfntbase... This means that the server stops when it doesn't find the font "fixed". Considering that I had those fonts in the previous installation and that something removed them, so it wasn't my fault, I think it'd be nice to have a dependency for xfntbase either in xserver or xfnt^base* (in zsh notation), or another suitable place. Carlos
