Bug#241472: marked as done (gdm doesn't install /etc/init.d/gdm
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Subject: gdm doesn't install /etc/init.d/gdm file :(
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Package: gdm
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Hi,
I removed /etc/init.d/gdm file, because I've corrupted this file and after
reinstalling gdm there are no /etc/init.d/gdm file :( Then I removed gdm
with apt-get remove gdm and reinstalled again, but /etc/init.d/gdm still
doesn exist:
dubrava:/home/mantas# dpkg -l gdm
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
rc gdm 2.4.4.7-1 GNOME Display Manager
dubrava:/home/mantas# ls /etc/init.d/gdm
ls: /etc/init.d/gdm: No such file or directory
dubrava:/home/mantas# apt-get install gdm/unstable
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 2.4.4.7-1 (Debian:unstable) for gdm
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gdm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 714 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/2057kB of archives.
After unpacking 6615kB of additional disk space will be used.
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package gdm.
(Reading database ... 89152 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gdm (from .../gdm_2.4.4.7-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up gdm (2.4.4.7-1) ...
dubrava:/home/mantas# ls /etc/init.d/gdm
ls: /etc/init.d/gdm: No such file or directory
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux dubrava.homelinux.org 2.4.25-1-686 #1 Tue Feb 24 10:55:59 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=lt_LT, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.51 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.3.20 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.18 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii eterm [x-terminal 0.9.2-0pre2002042903.2 Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii gnome-session 2.4.1-2 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x 2.4.2-5 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.10-3 The GNOME 2 canvas widget - runtim
ii libatk1.0-0 1.4.1-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.4.3-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.4.3-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.4.0.1-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 2.0.1-6 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.2.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.4.0-4 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.4.0-1 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.4.0.1-5 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.4.1-4 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnomevfs2-comm 2.4.1-4 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgsf-1 1.8.2-3 Structured File Library - runtime
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.2.4-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.8.2-1 Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 0.72-35 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-14 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-14 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.2.5-2.1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-2 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.5.0-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libwrap0 7.6-9 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libxml2 2.6.7-1 GNOME XML library
ii metacity [x-windo 1:2.6.2-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii sawfish-gnome [x- 1.0.1.20020116-3 A highly configurable window manag
ii xlibs 4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries
ii xterm [x-terminal 4.1.0-16woody1 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3 compression library - runtime
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From: Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>
To: Mantas Kriau?i?nas <mantas@akl.lt>, 241472-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#241472: gdm doesn't install /etc/init.d/gdm file :(
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On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 10:51:28PM +0300, Mantas Kriau?i?nas wrote:
> I removed /etc/init.d/gdm file, because I've corrupted this file and after
> reinstalling gdm there are no /etc/init.d/gdm file :( Then I removed gdm=
=20
> with apt-get remove gdm and reinstalled again, but /etc/init.d/gdm still=
=20
> doesn exist:
That's because it's a conffile, and dpkg respects deletion of a conffile.
To get the file back, you'll want to apt-get --purge remove gdm or
dpkg -P gdm, then reinstall.
--=20
Ryan Murray, Debian Developer (rmurray@cyberhqz.com, rmurray@debian.org)
The opinions expressed here are my own.
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