Hi Branden, Just to let you know I change shared/default-x-display-manager from 'shared/default-x-display-manager' to 'xdm' using debconf-communicate and the apt-get upgrade worked perfectly.
Thanks for helping out! Norman On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:25:00 -0500, Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 03:31:10PM +0200, Norman Rasmussen wrote: > > okay, help me out a bit here.... > > > > I assume that the deb_conf database is configuration registry, but I'm > > not sure what the values _should_ be. > > A list of package names that provide X display managers. > > $ debconf-show xdm > debconf: DbDriver "passwords" warning: could not open > /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat: Permission denied > xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false > xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/X11/xdm > * shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm > > > I'm happy to run debconf-communicate to get & set values, but what > > should the values be? I only have xdm installed, and there really > > shouldn't be kdm, or gdm installed anywhere. > > In that case, your output should look just about identical to mine, above. > > > I think that the script is trying to migrate > > /etc/X11/default-display-manager into deb_conf's database, but now > > it's /etc/X11/default-display-manager.dpkg-tmp (as part of the upgrade > > process no doubt) and it contains /usr/bin/X11/xdm-disabled > > and I want xdm not to start by default. > > Er, uh, what? I have no idea what "xdm-disabled" is and I'm pretty it has > nothing to do with anything I've ever packaged. > > > has changing the default-display-manager to a non-existant file > > confused the deb_conf upgrade process? > > Possibly. However, the system should be robust enough to cope with that, > by complaining about the bogus value and simply not starting a display > manager at all. > > -- > G. Branden Robinson | Psychology is really biology. > Debian GNU/Linux | Biology is really chemistry. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Chemistry is really physics. > http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | Physics is really math. > > > -- - Norman Rasmussen - Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Home page: http://norman.rasmussen.org/
