Your message dated Tue, 9 Dec 2025 19:25:47 -0500 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Re: xdm: file /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession has many newlines before #! has caused the Debian Bug report #923188, regarding xdm: file /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession has many newlines before #! to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.11-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Trying to use xdm for the first time in a decade after sddm destroyed itself * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Xdm logged me in to some crazy session rather than my normal kde; tried to figure out what was wrong; found /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession broken -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages xdm depends on: ii cpp 4:8.2.0-2 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.70 ii libc6 2.28-7 ii libpam0g 1.3.1-5 ii libselinux1 2.8-1+b1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.7-1 ii libxau6 1:1.0.8-1+b2 ii libxaw7 2:1.0.13-1+b2 ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.2-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2 ii libxft2 2.3.2-2 ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.4-2 ii libxmu6 2:1.1.2-2 ii libxpm4 1:3.5.12-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1 ii lsb-base 10.2018112800 ii procps 2:3.3.15-2 ii x11-utils 7.7+4 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+8 xdm recommends no packages. xdm suggests no packages. -- debconf information excluded
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 1:1.1.17-1 On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 13:58:00 -0800 Joshua <[email protected]> wrote:Package: xdm Version: 1:1.1.11-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Trying to use xdm for the first time in a decade after sddm destroyed itself * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? Xdm logged me in to some crazy session rather than my normal kde; tried to figure out what was wrong; found /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession brokenThe new release of xdm is not using cpp (C Preprocessor) to process files under /etc/X11/xdm/ anymore. Consider this bug as fixed. Thanks, Boyuan Yang
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