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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 7 Jan 2003 01:39:32 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Jan 06 19:39:30 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from fort-point-station.mit.edu [18.7.7.76] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 18ViiI-0001P0-00; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 19:39:30 -0600 Received: from central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (CENTRAL-CITY-CARRIER-STATION.MIT.EDU [18.7.7.72]) by fort-point-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA03498 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:39:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (MELBOURNE-CITY-STREET.MIT.EDU [18.7.21.86]) by central-city-carrier-station.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA23388; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:39:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from tess-turbo (STRATTON-THREE-SEVENTY-SIX.MIT.EDU [18.187.6.121]) by melbourne-city-street.mit.edu (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA20706; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 20:39:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from alex by tess-turbo with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18ViiG-0001Jh-00; Mon, 06 Jan 2003 20:39:28 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Alex Coventry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: xdm fails to start X X-Mailer: reportbug 2.10 Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 20:39:28 -0500 Message-Id: <E18ViiG-0001Jh-00@tess-turbo> Sender: Alex Coventry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.6 required=5.0 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: Package: xdm Version: 4.2.1-4 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable the init.d xdm script fails to start X. "xdm" from the command line also fails to start X. i can start it just fine with "startx", though. hope this helps. alex. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: powerpc Kernel: Linux tess-turbo 2.4.18-newpmac #1 Thu Mar 14 22:44:49 EST 2002 ppc Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages xdm depends on: ii cpp 2:2.95.4-17 The GNU C preprocessor. ii debconf 1.2.21 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.1-9 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam0g 0.76-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libxaw7 4.2.1-4 X Athena widget set library ii xbase-clients 4.2.1-4 miscellaneous X clients ii xlibs 4.2.1-4 X Window System client libraries -- debconf information: xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/X11/xdm shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm --------------------------------------- Received: (at 175618-done) by bugs.debian.org; 7 Jan 2003 19:22:55 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Jan 07 13:22:55 2003 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from dhcp16621067.indy.rr.com (redwald.deadbeast.net) [24.166.21.67] by master.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 1 (Debian)) id 18VzJO-00070d-00; Tue, 07 Jan 2003 13:22:54 -0600 Received: by redwald.deadbeast.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A10F764145; Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:22:50 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:22:50 -0500 From: Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#175618: xdm fails to start X Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <E18ViiG-0001Jh-00@tess-turbo> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-15.2 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: --ZGiS0Q5IWpPtfppv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 11:54:14AM -0500, Alex Coventry wrote: > below is the output of the commands you suggested, after attempting to > run xdm again. there are no processes with the name "xdm", and the > contents of the Xservers file looks sane. the modification time on that > file is from Dec 8 last year. between then and last night, when i ran > into this problem, the machine has been rebooted and successfully > restarted xdm. Sounds like some sort of transient problem specific to your machine. Closing this bug. > to me it looks like the xdm package is rendered unusable by xdm failing > to start X, and that matched the "grave" severity option in the list > provided by reportbug. what bug severity would you suggest? When the report is this vague and unreproducible, "important" at worst. If you can reproduce or isolate the cause of this problem, please re-file. --=20 G. Branden Robinson | "I came, I saw, she conquered." 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