[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#467196: initscripts: GDM no longer start automagically on Lenny

[Valentin QUEQUET]

Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-53
Severity: important


Hello, the hurd.

I've got a problem with 'gdm' on my Debian GNU/Linux Lenny/Sid system.

My problem is that on my system, maily based on both 'lenny' and 'sid' and
up-to-date as of yesterday 22-February-2008, gdm is NO LONGER started
automa-
tically from the normal startup sequence.

Further action via '/etc/init.d/gdm {start|stop} doesn't help either.

Replacing '/usr/sbin/gdm' by a logging hook program, I diagnosed that my
hook
program, and thus the actual gdm binary ( /usr/sbin/gdm.original ), WAS NOT
LAUNCHED.

Could you please help me diagnose this problem.

Here follows a list of packages of interest I run with their version:

linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 2.6.24-4   (from Sid)
initscripts 2.86.ds1-53   (from Lenny)
lsb-base 3.1-24   (from Lenny)
sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-53   (from Lenny)
debianutils 2.28.3   (from Lenny)
libc6 2.7-6   (from Lenny)
splashy 0.3.8-1   (from Lenny)
splashy-themes 0.4   (from Lenny)
libsplashy1 0.3.8-1   (from Lenny)


The problem is the same when I run the following kernel instead:
linux-image-2.6.22-3-k7 2.6.22-6.lenny1   (from Lenny)


Then, any hint?

I highly suggest this be a bug (discrepancy of packages' expectations) of
initscripts, initscripts and *splashy* . Or is 'gdm' mis-registered?

Sincerely,
Valentin QUEQUET

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

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages initscripts depends on:
ii  debianutils                  2.28.3      Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  e2fsprogs                    1.40.6-1    ext2 file system utilities and lib
ii  libc6                        2.7-6       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                     3.1-24      Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount                        2.13.1-1    Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  sysvinit-utils               2.86.ds1-53 System-V-like utilities

Versions of packages initscripts recommends:
ii  psmisc                        22.6-1     Utilities that use the proc filesy

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