Bug#457618: kdm fails to start after upgrade

[Udi Fuchs]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.2-1


After upgrading to gdm-2.20 it stopped working. It seems to be some
package configuration problem:

# dpkg-reconfigure gdm
Scheduling reload of GNOME Display Manager configuration:
gdminvoke-rc.d: initscript gdm, action "reload" failed.

As a temporary solution I installed kdm.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.105            add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.17           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                    2.0.0-5          graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session           2.20.2-1         The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.18.3-1         The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emu 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-2 X terminal emulator for KDE
ii  kwin [x-window-manager] 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-2 the KDE window manager
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.20.0-1         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                1:2.4.39-1       Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                   2.7-4            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.10-1+lenny2  The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.1-3          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.74-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1                 1:1.0.2-2        X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1          2.4.2-1.2        generic font configuration library
ii  libglade2-0             1:2.6.2-1        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.3-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.20.1.1-1       A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.12.1-1         The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libpam-modules          0.99.7.1-5       Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime          0.99.7.1-5       Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                0.99.7.1-5       Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.18.3-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2              2.18.2-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common         2.18.2-1         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1             2.0.15-2+b1      SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                7.6.dbs-14       Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                2:1.0.3-7        X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                 1:1.0.3-2        X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6               1:1.0.2-2        X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6                1:1.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                  2:1.1.3-1        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.30.dfsg-3    GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-mana 1:2.20.1-1       A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  twm [x-window-manager]  1:1.0.3-2        Tab window manager
ii  xbase-clients           1:7.2.ds2-2      miscellaneous X clients

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20071028-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.5.1          Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-11.1    Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  xserver-xephyr | xnest    <none>         (no description available)
ii  xserver-xorg              1:7.2-5        the X.Org X server
pn  zenity                    <none>         (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm