package xdm severity 366516 grave merge 366516 365134 thanks On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 01:01:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (1) At some stage, startx failed because some scripts expect xdm to reside > in /usr/bin/X11 whereas etch installed it in /usr/bin. A symbolic link > helped. > > At this stage, if not earlier, I was able to start X11 from tty1 via startx. > > (2) /etc/inittab comes with default runlevel=2. It seems that I have to > change this manually.
By default there is no difference between runlevels 2-5 in Debian, so you do not have to change anything in /etc/inittab. > (3) After the n-th reboot, no progress: still a vt100 login to tty1 > instead of the graphic X11 login screen. At last, I found an enlightening > message in xdm.log: "server /usr/bin/X cannot be executed" "server open > failed for :0, giving up" and so on. Another link towards /usr/bin/X11 > helped. This bug is caused by missing dependency on x11-common from unstable, and was already reported as #365134. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
