package xdm severity 366599 grave merge 365134 366599 thanks On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 08:23:55PM +0100, Phil Endecott wrote: > Package: xdm > Version: 1:1.0.1-6 > Severity: normal > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > From: Phil Endecott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers calls /usr/bin/X, but I have /usr/X11R6/bin/X > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: reportbug 3.20 > Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 20:09:27 +0100 > > Package: xdm > Version: 1:1.0.1-6 > Severity: normal > > > I've just tried to upgrade xdm to 1:1.0.1-6, from a > not-very-old 6.9.something version (sorry, I don't think I can now find > out what the old version was). I have not upgraded any other X > packages. > > When xdm tries to start, according to /var/log/xdm.log : > server /usr/bin/X cannot be executed > > This comes from /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, which has this path hardcoded. > My X server seems to be in /usr/X11R6/bin/X, provided by xserver-common > 6.9.0.dfsg.1-4. > > My guess is that the location of the X server has changed recently, and > that if I now upgraded my other X packages it would now work properly. > But I'm not going to test this. > > One solution would be to make xdm depend on whatever package it is > that provides the X server, so that it will find it in the right place. > Otherwise some mechanism to find X wherever it is installed is needed.
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