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FS#3707 - xdm does not work in modular xorg

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Tom Killian (tomk) - Wednesday, 04 January 2006, 22:56 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Thursday, 05 January 2006, 06:59 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Testing
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Following today's upgrade to the new xorg from [testing], I can no longer log in using xdm. Entering xdm as root on the command line produces no response.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 18 February 2006, 18:29 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  The new xorg-xdm package should fix these problems. If you still have problems, file a new one.
Comment by 甘露(Lu Gan) (ganlu) - Thursday, 05 January 2006, 01:40 GMT
Check /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers, change line like this:
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon -config /etc/X11/xdm/archlinux/xdm-config

and /etc/inittab
:0 local /usr/bin/X -dpi 96 -nolisten tcp

Does it work?

or Xaccess, Xresouces etc.
Comment by Tom Killian (tomk) - Thursday, 05 January 2006, 09:36 GMT
Thanks ganlu. /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers does not exist on my system. The x:5:respawn:etc line exists in /etc/inittab, but it's commented out for the moment - right now, I'd be happy just to start it from CLI.

On my other system, with xorg 6.8.2, I have the line :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. This was installed by default - I did not have to edit it. On the upgraded system, everything in /etc/X11/xdm has been pacsaved during the upgrade, and nothing new has been installed in /etc/X11. So I'll try reinstating the /etc/X11/xdm files and amending paths where required.
Comment by Tom Killian (tomk) - Thursday, 05 January 2006, 10:21 GMT
I've now reinstated all the .pacsave files in /etc/X11/xdm, except for xdm-config, which I copied over from /usr/share/X11/xdm. I've amended the path in Xserver to /usr/bin/X. Unfortunately, there is still no response from xdm.
Comment by Tom Killian (tomk) - Saturday, 07 January 2006, 14:25 GMT
I've been googling this a bit more, and found a couple of gentoo guys talking about it - it was over my head, tbh, but I think they tried rebuilding xdm with -export-dynamic in CFLAGS.

I've also tried wdm, which i understand is based on xdm, and the pacakge from [extra] failed as well. I rebuilt it with --x-includes=/usr/include/xorg --x-libraries=/usr/lib and it works. I'd still prefer xdm, though. :)

If any of this helps, good - if not, at least I feel like I'm doing something. :P
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 07 January 2006, 16:45 GMT
xorg-clients will be split up in another 5 or 6 packages, one of them is a standalone xdm. Hope the autotooled version will operate like it should. Autotooled programs don't mean everything will be alright: I have to patch many things to get it installing in the right locations :(
Comment by Tom Killian (tomk) - Saturday, 07 January 2006, 18:15 GMT
Cheers, JGC. I really appreciate all the work being done on this, and I look forward to the new packages when they're ready.
Comment by Andrey Gusev (metal) - Friday, 27 January 2006, 22:06 GMT
I had same trouble too. I added to Xservers:
0: local /usr/bin/X :0
Also I couldn't execute firefox after login without full path to it. I added . /etc/profile in ~/.xsession. May be it isn't best way.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 11 February 2006, 16:14 GMT
Xdm is not working for me too (Xorg 7).
When I uncomment x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon in inittab I get this error:
INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
So I must start XFCE without xdm:
x:5:once:/bin/su user -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c startxfce4"

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