Bug#569904: gdm: fails to start because of broken dependencies
Josselin Mouette
joss at debian.org
Mon Feb 15 08:41:03 UTC 2010
Le dimanche 14 février 2010 à 23:39 +0100, Marc Dequènes (Duck) a
écrit :
> After an upgrade of the unstable suite a few minutes ago, gdm just
> fails to start because of missing libraries.
>
> Using ldd on the binary i found links with libdirect*, but as directfb
> with a new soname just entered the archive, and as there is no Depends
> on this library, the old one was removed (unused).
>
> It seems other libraries are also missing from the Depends line, like
> libxcb*. Please correct the Depends line, or the buld to remove the
> links.
GDM doesn’t directly link to these libraries, as objdump
-p /usr/sbin/gdm will show you.
This bug has to belong in one of the dependencies. I suspect it is
related to the libjpeg fiasco.
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