On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: > Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > There IS a debconf question about it.. it's not like it just does it to you > > without asking. Maybe the debconf priority of the question is too low if > > too many people are missing it.
> Do you think this is also what prevented display managers (xdm, gdm, wings > are the ones that I tries) to function correctly? Branden diagnosed this bug correctly. A bug in the X server *cannot* cause xdm/gdm authentication to fail, unless perhaps Branden has started diverting files at random. (I'll let you check this if you like. Personally, I have greater confidence in his integrity as a developer.) The display manager starts the X server, not the other way around, which means that the X server has no control over the display manager's behavior; and the authentication failure you reported came from the display manager and PAM, /not/ from the X server. Is it possible you missed a debconf question that controls authentication for display managers when you upgraded? Yes, but it certainly wasn't in the X packages. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
