On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 05:17:10PM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > /etc/ttys ?
Absolutely right. This laptop's xdm worked before the update, so I doubted your suggestion. What happened is that the update replaced my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.ws in which I had carefully set vt08 as the terminal to use. The update changed it to vt05, which was inconsistent with my /etc/ttys. Editing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers back to vt08 fixed things. mystery solved! Cheers, Patrick
