Package: gdm Version: 2.20.9-1 Severity: important After upgrading debian unstable today I can't get gdm to start. xdm and logging into gnome via startx works fine. When trying to start or restart gdm I get the message:
Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm/sbin/start-stop-daemon: Unable to chdir() to '/root' (No such file or directory) thanks for any help -Phil -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-rc8 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages gdm depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.26 Debian configuration management sy ii gksu 2.0.2-1 graphical frontend to su ii gnome-session [x-sessi 2.22.3-3 The GNOME 2 Session Manager ii gnome-terminal [x-term 2.24.3-3 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.24.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libattr1 1:2.4.43-2 Extended attribute shared library ii libc6 2.9-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdmx1 1:1.0.2-3 X11 Distributed Multihead extensio ii libfontconfig1 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.3-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.0-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgtk2.0-0 2.14.7-4+b1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpam-modules 1.0.1-7 Pluggable Authentication Modules f ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-7 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.0.1-7 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpango1.0-0 1.22.4-2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii librsvg2-2 2.22.3-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii librsvg2-common 2.22.3-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libselinux1 2.0.71-1 SELinux shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii libx11-6 2:1.2-1 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.4-2 X11 authorisation library ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-3 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxi6 2:1.2.1-2 X11 Input extension library ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii lsb-base 3.2-21 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii metacity [x-window-man 1:2.24.0-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma ii twm [x-window-manager] 1:1.0.4-2 Tab window manager ii xterm [x-terminal-emul 242-1 X terminal emulator ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages gdm recommends: ii dialog 1.1-20080819-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii gdm-themes 0.6.2 Themes for the GNOME Display Manag ii whiptail 0.52.2-11.3 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe ii xnest 2:1.4.2-11 Nested X server ii xserver-xephyr 2:1.4.2-11 nested X server ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+18 the X.Org X server ii zenity 2.24.1-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro Versions of packages gdm suggests: ii libpam-gnome-keyring 2.24.1-2 PAM module to unlock the GNOME key ii locales 2.9-6 GNU C Library: National Language ( ii pm-utils 1.2.4-2 utilities and scripts for power ma -- debconf information: gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm * shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
