Bug#483433: gdm: dpkg-reconfigure reports that reload failed

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 28 mai 2008 à 21:03 +0200, Chris Capoccia a écrit :
> Package: gdm
> Version: 2.20.6-1
> Severity: important
> 
> gdm does not start automatically, but it starts when i type gdm at the 
> prompt.

Is gdm configured as your default display manager? If not, it will not
start indeed. What output do you get by typing “/etc/init.d/gdm start” ?

> so, i thought i would try to reconfigure it:
> # dpkg-reconfigure gdm
> Scheduling reload of GNOME Display Manager configuration: 
> gdminvoke-rc.d: initscript gdm, action "reload" failed.

If gdm is not running, this is expected and the error is ignored.

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