Re: Bug#34074: xdm login loop failure has happend to a newbie

["K. Desai" <kdesai@aoc.nrao.edu>]

JG wrote:

> When I first started maintaining my Debian machine about a year ago
> (which was the first time I was no longer just a user) on a box with
> C&T, I had exactly the same problems.  The only way I could solve them
> was by reading Running Linux, figuring how to reboot in single-user
> mode, switching off the xdm autostartup in /etc/rc2.d/S??xdm and
> rebooting.  Now THAT is not something we should be expecting new users
> to do.
> 
> The 'proper' solution would probably be to install xdm but require it
> to be explicitly turned on.  For example, the user could be
> recommended to try running xdm 'by hand' (by calling
> /etc/init.d/xdm start) as root once X is working (as tested by startx
> as a normal user).  If this works, then rc-update.d could be used to
> install xdm.  Not too much like hard work, but may save some
> heartache.
> 

[im pretty sure this is the wrong forum but i hope somebody can tell me where
this comment should be directed.]

I run xdm by logging in as root and starting it by hand as suggested here.
Thats a bit annoying but its even more annoying if i cant get out of xdm when
i want to.  

Could anybody here tell me why it is that xdm doesnt support 
something like:  

if you log in as root, the menu should have an additional 
option besides exiting the window manager, it should also allow you to exit
xdm as well.  

Im willing to post this question  to proper list if i can figure 
out what list that is.

[thanks, its been real instructive watching the releases get tested and i hope
some day soon i can contribute more materially to the testing...]

-ketan



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