Wrong path to X server in gdm.conf

[pitris]

Hello,
there's a bug in gdm-2.20 package in Karmic. File /etc/gdm/gdm.conf contains an old path to X server (X11R6) which doesn't seem to exist in Karmic anymore. Fix is to set it to /usr/bin/X.
I wanted to submit a big but ubuntu-bug doesn't seem to work behind proxy.

[Open Sense Solutions (opensense)]

sed -i 's/X11R6\///' /etc/gdm/gdm.conf

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

Please bump this up to High importance. This needs to be fixed in a Karmic update.

[Cris (cristiano.p)]

Please fix this bug.
The only way to have the old "sane" gdm features and behavior at the moment is downgrading gdm to 2.20:
GDM version >= 2.21 are basically incomplete and miss a lot of the old features ...
... and configuring the new versions is simply "too complicated for users" ...

I would suggest each one to complain mainstream by writing your opinion in the following bug reports:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591593
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591635

[Twisted Lincoln, Inc. (twistedlincoln)]

While this can easily be fixed by changing the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file manually, if it is not fixed by the next package update, users could upgrade and find their system won't start X upon the next reboot...

[scorp123 (scorp123)]

That's precisely why it is better to work with the symbolic links as they did in Ubuntu 9.04 and before:

cd /usr
sudo mkdir X11R6
cd X11R6
sudo ln -s /usr/bin bin

=> that way it won't matter if the "gdm.conf" file gets overwritten by a new update or not.

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

/usr/X11R6 is an anachronism. (Heck, we're currently at R7, even.) I'm fine with sweeping it away, but if that causes things to break, the presumption is that those will be fixed straightaway.

Why is this bug still open? This bug has as trivial a fix as it gets.

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

Cody, you uploaded the last (and first, and only) release of this package. Could you take a few minutes to push out this fix?

[doc_471 (the-analist-3d)]

I Confirm this bug. Also, the _sed -i 's/X11R6\///' /etc/gdm/gdm.conf_ works

[Daniel Richard G. (skunk)]

lightdm rules, gdm(-2.20) drools