Bug#302685: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X

[Leszek Koltunski]

Subject: After removing gdm 'startx' wont start X
Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.6-1
Severity: grave

I decided to 'dpkg -P gdm' yesterday and 'startx' wont start X any more
when issued by normal user 'leszek'. ( root can start it )

X server starts, ( I added a 'echo Got here! > ~/startx' to ~/.xinitrc
and I get to see the log, also, there are no errors in
/etc/X11/XFConfig-4.log ) but things go wrong later.

I think this is not an issue of a crashing WM ( WindowMaker ) because
I've tried copying all WindowMaker's -working- init settings of root
to leszek's home dir, to no avail.

I suspect this may have something to do with the fact that I had 'gdm'
to auto-login 'leszek' before.

'apt-get install gdm' solved the issue for me.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
   APT prefers testing
   APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.63            Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf                  1.4.30.11       Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                     1.10.27         Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  gksu                     1.2.4-1         graphical frontend to su
ii  libart-2.0-2             2.3.17-1        Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0              1.8.0-4         The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1                 2.4.16-1        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libaudiofile0            0.2.6-5         Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii  libbonobo2-0             2.8.1-2         Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0           2.8.1-2         The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbz2-1.0               1.0.2-5         high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                    2.3.2.ds1-20    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcroco3                0.6.0-2         a generic Cascading Style Sheet (C
ii  libesd0                  0.2.35-2        Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii  libgconf2-4              2.8.1-4         GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11              1.2.0-4         LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0              1:2.4.2-2       library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.6.3-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0        0.4.1-1         GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0              2.8.1-2         The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0        2.8.0-1         A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0             2.8.1-3         The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0           2.8.4-2         The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls11              1.0.16-9        GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgpg-error0            1.0-1           library for common error values an
ii  libgsf-1                 1.11.1-1        Structured File Library - runtime
ii  libgtk2.0-0              2.6.2-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libice6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62                6b-9            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii  liborbit2                1:2.12.1-1      libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpam-modules           0.76-22         Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime           0.76-22         Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                 0.76-22         Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0            1.8.1-1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                 1.7-5           lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2               2.8.1-2         SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1              1.22-1          SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System Session Management
ii  libtasn1-2               0.2.10-3        Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libwrap0                 7.6.dbs-8       Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii  libxext6                 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii  libxml2                  2.6.16-4        GNOME XML library
ii  rxvt-ml [x-terminal-emul 1:2.6.4-6.2     multi-lingual VT102 terminal emula
ii  wmaker [x-window-manager 0.91.0-7        NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii  xbase-clients            4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulat 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X terminal emulator
ii  zlib1g                   1:1.2.2-3       compression library - runtime

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