On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Steve Langasek wrote: SL>On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote: SL> SL>> Hamish Moffatt wrote: SL>> > There IS a debconf question about it.. it's not like it just does it to you SL>> > without asking. Maybe the debconf priority of the question is too low if SL>> > too many people are missing it. SL> SL>> Do you think this is also what prevented display managers (xdm, gdm, wings SL>> are the ones that I tries) to function correctly? SL> SL>Branden diagnosed this bug correctly. A bug in the X server *cannot* cause SL>xdm/gdm authentication to fail, unless perhaps Branden has started diverting SL>files at random. (I'll let you check this if you like. Personally, I have SL>greater confidence in his integrity as a developer.) The display manager SL>starts the X server, not the other way around, which means that the X server SL>has no control over the display manager's behavior; and the authentication SL>failure you reported came from the display manager and PAM, /not/ from the X SL>server. SL> SL>Is it possible you missed a debconf question that controls authentication for SL>display managers when you upgraded? Yes, but it certainly wasn't in the X SL>packages.
It's in one of the xserver packages...-common, I think. SL>Steve Langasek SL>postmodern programmer SL> SL> SL> -- Pardon me, but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn. email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
