Bug#241472: gdm doesn't install /etc/init.d/gdm file :(

Mantas Kriaučiūnas Mantas Kriaučiūnas , 241472@bugs.debian.org
Thu, 01 Apr 2004 22:51:28 +0300


Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-1
Severity: important

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