Package: xdm Version: 4.2.1-12.1 Severity: important I found a simple reproducible way to crash one's X session. # apt-get install multimon #a vastly undocumented program $ multimon then click the button to close the window created. [As what else does one do when there is no way to find out how to use the program.] Poof, even icewm is gone; one is back at the login prompt. $ tail /var/log/xdm.log.1 Sun Nov 16 01:27:42 2003 xdm error (pid 1011): can't execute "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xreset" (err 2) Sun Nov 16 01:27:44 2003 xdm info (pid 548): starting X server on :0 -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux jidanni.org 2.4.21-4-k7 #1 Sun Aug 3 02:34:06 EST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
Versions of packages xdm depends on: ii cpp-3.2 1:3.2.3-8 The GNU C preprocessor ii debconf 1.3.15 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.3.2-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam0g 0.76-14 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libxaw7 4.2.1-12.1 X Athena widget set library ii xbase-clients 4.2.1-12.1 miscellaneous X clients ii xlibs 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries -- debconf information: * shared/default-x-display-manager: xdm xdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/X11/xdm xdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
