[dapper] x-windows broken again

[Frank McCormick]

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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:59:50 +1100
James Gray <james at grayonline.id.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:17, Frank McCormick wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:21:05 +1100
> >
> > James Gray <james at grayonline.id.au> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:14, fmccormick at videotron.ca wrote:
> > > > Sorry but this stupid web interface my ISP provides is brain-dead!
> > > > Have to top post.I already have that symlink in place from the last
> > > > time X broke. This time it was after a GDM and Kernel update...as I
> > > > said no error messages...just a cli.


/snipped//

> > >
> I've re-wrapped the lines from your last post for clarity. Seems GDM is 
> trying to open a file associated with PAM 
> called /lib/security/pam_foreground.so.  Despite googling and searching the 
> package database at Debian (which is down) and Ubuntu, I couldn't find a 
> reference to the file in any package.
> 
> It's not on my Breezy system so I'm going to suggest something: this is a 
> bug in the package.  It depends on a file/package that hasn't been handled 
> correctly in the X/GDM packages somewhere.
> 
> Send your log snippet with a description of the problem to the maintainers 
> and see if they can fix their package :)  I know this doesn't resolve your 
> problem, but there's not a lot you can do unless you can find the file GDM 
> is trying to open (pam_foreground.so) somewhere else on your system then 
> maybe symlink it to /lib/security and see what happens.



  Going to file the bug report anyway - obviously there is something up with GDM even though I have X back.


> 
> Sorry I couldn't help more.


  the /dev/tty12 trick qualifies.:)


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Cheers

Frank

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