Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 12:28:17 -0800 From: Kenward Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Users <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Subject: Re: XFree 4.0.1 and xdm Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 10:07:03AM -0500, Scott Patterson wrote: >> >> >> >> >I=B4ve succesfully installed Woody and XFree 4.0.1-8 last weekend. Only >> >xdm shows a strange behavior. It starts nearly one minute after the >> >system has bootet. It=B4s possiblke to login to a console, and suddenly >> >xdm awakes. Any ideas? >> > >> >Regards, Sven >> >> I had/have the same problem. Probably not what you want to hear, but I simply >> removed XDM from starting up by running "update-rc.d xdm remove". This will >> remove xdm from all your startup scripts. > >You'll need to change that to "update-rc.d -f xdm remove" to force removal >of the links. I always forget the "-f" and end up having to run it again with the "-f". Someday I'll rememeber:) >> Now that I think of it, I should just purge the package since I don't really >> want it. It must have been installed when I updated to XFree 4.0.1-x! > >It comes with other things under the umbrella task-x-windows-system package. >I expect you'll want to remove that package after dumping xdm so it doesn't >get brought in on your next upgrade. (IIUTC, trashing the task package >won't touch the underlying apps.) Good point. I never though about that. Scott
