Bug#250888: gdm package creates rcN.d startup links in too many runlevels

Micah Parrish Micah Parrish <micah.parrish@hp.com>, 250888@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 25 May 2004 11:13:11 -0600


Package: gdm
Version: 2.4.4.7-3
Severity: important
Tags: sid


Upon installing gdm I discovered that S99gdm links had been created in
runlevels 2 3 4 5 rather than only in runlevel 5.  This has the
unfortunate consequence that if gdm can't start it loops infinitely 
even in runlevel 3 which is supposed to not start X.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: ia64
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-mckinley
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser              3.53                Add and remove users and groups
ii  aterm [x-terminal-em 0.4.2-10            Afterstep XVT - a VT102 emulator f
ii  debconf              1.4.25              Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                 1.10.21             Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  enlightenment [x-win 1:0.16.6-1          The Enlightenment Window Manager
ii  eterm [x-terminal-em 0.9.2-8             Enlightened Terminal Emulator
ii  gksu                 1.0.7-1             graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session        2.4.2-5             The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-te 2.4.2-7             The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2         2.3.16-5            Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0          1.4.1-1             The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1             2.4.16-1            Extended attribute shared library
ii  libbonobo2-0         2.4.3-1             Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0       2.4.3-2             The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6.1              2.3.2.ds1-12        GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4          2.4.0.1-4           GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0          1:2.0.1-13          Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.2.3-1             The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0          2.4.0-11            The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0    2.4.0-3             A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0         2.4.0.1-12          The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0       2.4.1-5             The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common  2.4.1-5             The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgsf-1             1.9.1-1             Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.2.4-6             The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6              4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2            1:2.8.3-2           libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules       0.76-21             Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime       0.76-21             Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g             0.76-21             Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0        1.2.5-5             Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0             1.7-4               lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2           2.5.0-2             SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1          1.12-1              SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6               4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      X Window System Session Management
ii  libwrap0             7.6.dbs-3           Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6             4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2              2.6.9-2             GNOME XML library
ii  lwm [x-window-manage 1.2.0-1             Lightweight Window Manager
ii  metacity [x-window-m 1:2.6.5-1           A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  mlterm [x-terminal-e 2.8.0.cvs20040403-2 MultiLingual TERMinal
ii  multi-gnome-terminal 1.6.2-8             Enhanced the GNOME Terminal
ii  pterm [x-terminal-em 0.54-2              PuTTY terminal emulator
ii  ratpoison [x-window- 1.2.1               Simple window manager with no fat 
ii  rxvt [x-terminal-emu 1:2.6.4-6           VT102 terminal emulator for the X 
ii  sawfish [x-window-ma 1:1.3+cvs20031104-5 A window manager for X11
ii  twm [x-window-manage 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      Tab window manager
ii  xbase-clients        4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      miscellaneous X clients
ii  xfce [x-window-manag 3.8.18-2            The Cholesterol Free Desktop Envir
ii  xlibs                4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      X Window System client libraries m
ii  xterm [x-terminal-em 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1      X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g               1:1.2.1.1-3         compression library - runtime

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