I've gotten into a situation on Woody where I can not install nor uninstall xdm or gdm or wdm. I can install other things.
Here's some relevant output: fafsa-01:~# apt-get install xdm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, xdm is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Setting up gdm (2.2.5.3-2) ... dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Setting up wdm (1.20-13) ... dpkg: error processing wdm (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Setting up xdm (4.1.0-13) ... dpkg: error processing xdm (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: gdm wdm xdm E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) fafsa-01:~# The same type thing happens with gdm and wdm. Here's more: fafsa-01:~# apt-get remove xdm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: xdm 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 3 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 664kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 26154 files and directories currently installed.) Removing xdm ... dpkg: error processing xdm (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 10 dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10 Errors were encountered while processing: xdm E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) fafsa-01:~# And more: fafsa-01:~# update-alternatives --config x-session-manager There is only 1 program which provides x-session-manager (/usr/bin/gdm). Nothing to configure. fafsa-01:~# /etc/init.d/gdm start Not starting GNOME Display Manager (gdm); it is not the default display manager.fafsa-01:~# Can anyone help me out here? Thanks! Kent
