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FS#7821 - xorg-xdm 1.1.5-1 Xresources broken (x2)

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by dbostrom (dbostrom) - Wednesday, 15 August 2007, 00:57 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 21 June 2008, 14:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Alexander Baldeck (kth5)
Architecture i686
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08 Don't Panic
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
1) /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources.pacnew contains the line
#if WIDTH > 800
with no closing #endif

2) Every time xdm starts, a message is logged in /var/log/xdm.log
xdm error (pid 3630): can't execute "bindir/xrdb" (err 2)
and the Xresources file is never read in and utilized (even an old file with fully matching #if/#endif's)


Steps to reproduce:
1) Install/Update xorg-xdm 1.1.5-1
2) Start xdm
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Saturday, 21 June 2008, 14:07 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 17 August 2007, 06:10 GMT
2) is fixed by a new upstream version. 1) isn't fixed upstream it seems.
Comment by Corrado Primier (bardo) - Saturday, 15 December 2007, 22:38 GMT
For 2) here's a patch and the updated PKGBUILD. I also removed the pam dependency (namcap says 'already satisfied').
   Xresources.patch (0.3 KiB)
   PKGBUILD (1.3 KiB)

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