I don't really know how to answer the question of "what version of Ubuntu". It was some combination of packages drawn from breezy and/or dapper during the dapper process. The version of the gdm package was 2.13.0.5-0ubuntu2.
I kind of feel like you aren't trying very hard to investigate the problem. Notice that when I installed gdm that it printed an error message to stderr saying that it can't grep a file named "/etc/X11/default-display-manager". Is it a requirement that such a file exist when you install gdm? If it is a requirement, then shouldn't the gdm package depend on a package that provides such a file? If it isn't a requirement, then shouldn't the attempt to grep the file be quietened? Wouldn't it be fairly quick to examine the install script and see what might go wrong if /etc/X11/default-display-manager doesn't exist? I could attempt to reproduce this only by potentially destabilizing one of the systems that my family regularly uses, so I am reluctant to do so. Let me put it this way: 1. the gdm package does not depend on any package which provides a file named "/etc/X11/default-display-manager". 2. the gdm package install script attempts to grep such a file 3. ipso facto: this is a bug, right? Or is there some unusual situation where it uses such a file if it exists, but it doesn't require such a file? If so, then the grep should be quietened. P.S. As a long-term Free Software developer -- and a commercial software developer -- I am sympathetic to the problem of receiving bug reports which are insufficiently informative or which are irreproducible. I am doing my best to provide you with a useful bug report. -- fails to install -- possibly due to implicit dependency on default-display-manager? https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29389 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
