Mike Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've recently reinstalled Debian 1.3 (on a system with a new > disk) and found that after installing xbase and xserver-svga, xdm > wouldn't start. After looking about a bit, I found that > /etc/init.d/xdm was empty and that the start up script was in > /etc/init.d/xdm.dpkg-dist. > > Can anyone help me sort out where I went wrong? Or is this a > feature that I don't understand?
What seems to have happened is that something created an empty /etc/init.d/xdm file. When it installed xdm, dpkg, finding an existing file, assumed that you knew what you were doing and so didn't replace the empty /etc/init.d/xdm - this is the way dpkg behaves with all files that are considered "configuration files". As to how to hunt down what caused the empty /etc/init.d/xdm, I'm not sure. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
