Comment 9 for bug 6814

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Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 17:03:37 -0700
From: Ryan Murray <email address hidden>
To: Mantas Kriauciunas <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#251979: gdm doesn't start - says, that there is already runing X server

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 02:02:45AM +0300, Mantas Kriauciunas wrote:
> When I upgraded gdm to version 2.4.4.7-1 it stops to work - I always
> get gray X screen instead and when I move mouse cursor computer goes to
> text mode and this message appears:

You're running several outdated packages from a backport from somewhere.
There was at least one ABI change in the GNOME 2.4 libraries that did not
have the shlibs file bumped as required, which causes problems like this.

With the upload of 2.6.0.3-1, gdm has been built against the 2.6 versions of
the libraries, all of which have had their shlibs file increased to the
2.6 versions.

> Same bug is reproducible on several systems, but on some system new gdm
> works. I think bug is in dependancies - it seems, that gdm should depend
> to newer versions of some libraries, but I don't know which libraries I
> should upgrade :(

As you are running backport versions from somewhere, I can't even begin to
guess at this. I'd suggest changing your sources.list to be fully unstable
and upgrade to the latest if that's what you want to run. As the dependencies
have all been increased in the current pacakge, I'm closing this bug.

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Ryan Murray, Debian Developer (<email address hidden>, <email address hidden>)
The opinions expressed here are my own.