On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:11:09PM -0500, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Principle tools needed by either wdm, or wmaker, (I haven't figured out > > which) are provided by xbase-clients, which is not installed during the > > dist-upgrade... > > Please find out which and what and file a bug. wdm was changed to depend on > xutils instead of xbase-clients, which implies that it only used things > which moved to that package. If this is not the case, it is a simple matter > of a missing dependency.
Best I can tell, the errors in the log were issued by wdm. They were unhelpful errors about not being able to open for read files like /root/GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL. My path of discovery was to try to use startx and see if there was a configuration problem, but startx is provided by xbase-clients, and was not found on my just-upgraded system. Installing xbase-clients fixed the problem... > > > My current question is: How much of this is going to be fixed in the final > > release, and how much should I discuss in my book? > > All of this should be fixed. Filing bugs is a good step down that path. Not according to the X maintainer ;-) He says I just need to correct my ignorance... Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_- Author of "Dwarf's Guide to Debian GNU/Linux" _-_-_-_-_-_- _- _- _- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (850) 656-9769 _- _- Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road _- _- e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _- _- _- _-_-_-_-_- Released under the GNU Free Documentation License _-_-_-_- available at: http://www.polaris.net/~dwarf/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]