On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:37:41PM -0600, Brian Boonstra wrote: > > > 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.
It worked fine when i upgraded. Perhaps you had previously changed /etc/init.d/xdm, and then didn't replace it when installing the new version of xdm? That would leave you with the old file, still looking for parse-xf86config. parse-xf86config was removed in xfree86 3.3.6-4. changelog.Debian explains why. > Maybe I somehow ended up with a broken xserver-common? That would > explain the bad init script, I guess. /etc/init.d/xdm is in xdm, not xserver-common ;) -- finger for GPG public key.
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