Subject: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X Package: gdm Version: 2.6.0.6-1 Severity: grave
I decided to 'dpkg -P gdm' yesterday and 'startx' wont start X any more when issued by normal user 'leszek'. ( root can start it )
X server starts, ( I added a 'echo Got here! > ~/startx' to ~/.xinitrc and I get to see the log, also, there are no errors in /etc/X11/XFConfig-4.log ) but things go wrong later.
I think this is not an issue of a crashing WM ( WindowMaker ) because I've tried copying all WindowMaker's -working- init settings of root to leszek's home dir, to no avail.
I suspect this may have something to do with the fact that I had 'gdm' to auto-login 'leszek' before.
'apt-get install gdm' solved the issue for me.
-- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf 1.4.30.11 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.10.27 Package maintenance system for Deb ii gksu 1.2.4-1 graphical frontend to su ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 2.4.16-1 Extended attribute shared library ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-5 Open-source version of SGI's audio ii libbonobo2-0 2.8.1-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library ii libbonoboui2-0 2.8.1-2 The Bonobo UI library ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.2-5 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcroco3 0.6.0-2 a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C ii libesd0 0.2.35-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared ii libgconf2-4 2.8.1-4 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgcrypt11 1.2.0-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.2-2 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.3-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnome-keyring0 0.4.1-1 GNOME keyring services library ii libgnome2-0 2.8.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.8.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeui-0 2.8.1-3 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.8.4-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libr ii libgnutls11 1.0.16-9 GNU TLS library - runtime library ii libgpg-error0 1.0-1 library for common error values an ii libgsf-1 1.11.1-1 Structured File Library - runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.2-4 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii liborbit2 1:2.12.1-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB ii libpam-modules 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 0.76-22 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 0.76-22 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii librsvg2-2 2.8.1-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 1.22-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management ii libtasn1-2 0.2.10-3 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime) ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxml2 2.6.16-4 GNOME XML library ii rxvt-ml [x-terminal-emul 1:2.6.4-6.2 multi-lingual VT102 terminal emula ii wmaker [x-window-manager 0.91.0-7 NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X ii xbase-clients 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 miscellaneous X clients ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu ii xterm [x-terminal-emulat 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-3 compression library - runtime
-- debconf information: gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
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