wdm expects "X" at wrong location: /usr/bin/X11/X

[Bronsen]

When I installed wdm it failed to start completely. I could see the wdm processes running, but wdm didn't display anything on vt7. Also it was impossible to stop wdm the "natural" way (sudo invoke-rc.d wdm stop). I had to manually "killall -9 wdm" and then "rm /var/run/wdm.pid"

After reading the log files it turned out that wdm expects the X executable to be in /usr/bin/X11/X instead of /usr/bin/X. I found no way of configuring this, but I might have overlooked it. To me it looks like the path to X is hardcoded, which in my book is a Bad Thing.

For now I symlinked /usr/bin/X11/X to /usr/bin/X. The preinst script could do this, if the path really is hardcoded in upstream...

The other display managers I tried -namely kdm and gdm- did not behave this way.

[Barry deFreese (bddebian)]

/usr/bin/X11 should be symlinked to ../bin by default. Can someone else confirm this problem? Maybe it was a temporary Xorg package issue?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Is this still a problem?

[William Grant (wgrant)]

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.