Bug#422735: /etc/X11/default-display-manager: path to gdm binary is wrong

[Michael Biebl]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.18.1-2
Severity: normal

dpkg-reconfigure gdm creates the file /etc/X11/default-display-manager
with /usr/bin/gdm.
Yet there is no /usr/bin/gdm, only /usr/sbin/gdm.
Also, the startup script has the somewhat artifical distinction between
DAEMON (with the correct path) and DEBCONF_DAEMON (with the wrong path).
It seems that in gdm.templates, gdm/daemon_name, the default is
/usr/bin/gdm, for whatever reason (Is there actually a good reason to
make the gdm path configurable via debconf, imo no)

This is all quite confusing imo and should be cleaned up and simplified.

Cheers,
Michael



-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.1
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.102            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.13           Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                    2.0.0-4          graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session           2.18.0-1         The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-termi 2.18.0-2         The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  konsole [x-terminal-emu 4:3.5.6.dfsg.2-2 X terminal emulator for KDE
ii  kwin [x-window-manager] 4:3.5.6.dfsg.2-2 the KDE window manager
ii  libart-2.0-2            2.3.19-3         Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0             1.18.0-2         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                1:2.4.32-1.1     Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                   2.5-7            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2               1.4.6-1          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.0.2-5          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.73-2           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             1:2.6.0-4        library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.12.12-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0       2.14.0-2         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0             2.10.12-1        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpam-modules          0.79-4           Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime          0.79-4           Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                0.79-4           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0           1.16.2-2         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                1.10-3           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2              2.16.1-2         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common         2.16.1-2         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1             2.0.15-1         SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0                7.6.dbs-13       Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                2:1.1.1-1        X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                 1:1.0.3-2        X11 authorisation library
ii  libxcursor1             1:1.1.8-2        X cursor management 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  libxfixes3              1:4.0.3-2        X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                  1:1.0.1-4        X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1            1:1.0.2-1        X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                 2.6.28.dfsg-1    GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2              2:1.2.1-1        X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1             1:0.9.2-1        X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  lsb-base                3.1-23.1         Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  metacity [x-window-mana 1:2.18.2-3       A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  openbox [x-window-manag 3.3-2.1          standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii  xbase-clients           1:7.2.ds2-2      miscellaneous X clients
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emula 225-1            X terminal emulator

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                    1.1-20070409-2 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  gdm-themes                0.5.1          Themes for the GNOME Display Manag
ii  whiptail                  0.52.2-10      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii  zenity                    2.18.1-1       Display graphical dialog boxes fro

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