On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:41:47AM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:35:51PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: > > > Since the debconf default-display-manager mechanism is now used to > > > determine which display manager runs, shouldn't wdm/Xservers contain a > > > valid server line for :0? > > > > Just uncommented the last line in /etc/X11/wdm/Xservers, and wdm ran > > perfectly well. It was the reason why wdm did nothing. So it would seem > > that postinst (or something) isn't doing the right thing). > > Well, it's not quite that. It's that postinst used to do something that > would (possibly) result in that line being uncommented. That was how > it would resolve conflicts between xdm and wdm. Of course, this also > necessitated that postinst edited xdm's Xservers file to comment out its > xserver line. That's against policy (one package can't touch another's > config files). > > So now we've got a nice debconf mechanism for choosing the display > manager, and all that junk about commenting and uncommenting lines is > removed. However, the line in Xservers was commented by default to > ensure no breakage. Nothing in the postinst script should touch that > file, the file should just contain the right value by default. > > I will fix that unless Branden can supply me with some reason that it > should not be the case. I can't imagine that there'd be one, though.
Well there you go. You learn something new everyday. In this case the lesson is "always read the whole thread before posting" :) Cheers Dave