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xdm was starting fine but after I upgraded Debian testing, when I boot now I get the console and not the xdm gray display, I tried to google and read a bit of docs to fix this but my initial tries failed.
xdm was starting fine but after I upgraded Debian testing, when I boot now I get the console and not the xdm gray display, I tried to google and read a bit of docs to fix this but my initial tries failed.
nothing- that is when I exit X and login as root, or reboot into a brand new console and log in as root, and type the command #xdm, I get a new root prompt # with out any output whatsoever "nothing" no error message, not even a new line.
#xdm
#
execpt I hear the box doing somthing for about 1/3 second.
This is bug 365134. The updated xdm has the wrong paths to several executables. I used the documentation in the bug package to manually edit the files and it works for me now.
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