Since last night's Woody upgrade, startx no longer works as before. Now, it completely ignores ~/.xsession and does not even create a default session if .xsession does not exist which leads me to believe that Xsession is never sourced. This means that the X server quits as soon as it's started.
I tried xinit--symlinking ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xsession--and it worked fine. I accidentally left the link in place and tried startx...voila! it worked. Removing the link breaks it again. Is this purposeful behavior? The only related bug against xbase-clients seems to be 111009 but the resolution to that seems to require man-page fix, not a change in session behavior. Best, -=greg
