On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, William Schwartz wrote:
>> Well, I did something stupid, and I don't know how I did it or how to make
>> it stop...
>> I added a package that when debian starts up, it proceeds right into a GUI
>> login screen (with a penguin head). Now, the problem is that I don't like
>> it, and I want it to go away. I don't remember what package it is or
>> remember even what it is called. Now, since updating my packages. my
it is > xdm <
>I have the same problem with updating to x..._3.3.2.3a-9.
>It seems to come from the "xdm"-packege.
>Possibly we'll get a new update right soon. Until then you could get around the
>problem moving (until the next update) /etc/init.d/xdb to, say,
>/etc/init.d/xdm.sav,
>then you need to start your X manually e.g. startx or so ...
continued ...
According to the mail From: Peter Iannarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> it
really seems that xdm waits forever on 'xbanner', which was was not installed
here. You may install the xbanner packege or comment out those lines ...
--
Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
