> > Something blew away a program called parse-xf86config this weekend. > > I suspect it was when I did my apt-get upgrade. This is a problem because > > /etc/init.d/xdm won't run properly without it. > > According to the docs, you don't need that any more. > Just remove the line 'check-local-xserver' from your > /etc/X11/xdm/xdm.options. The short explanation is > somewhere in the /usr/doc/xserver-common/changelog.Debian.gz > file.
Reasonable, but that doesn't really help /etc/init.d/xdm. I've changed /etc/init.d/xdm by hand for now, but I doubt this is what the maintainers meant for *everyone* to do. Maybe I somehow ended up with a broken xserver-common? That would explain the bad init script, I guess. - Brian