[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#504842: nodm: default X11 console should be vt7

[Luca Capello]

Package: nodm
Version: 0.1
Severity: important

Hi there!

On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:12:16 +0100, Jidanni wrote:
> I installed xdm, but when I try to run it:
> xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (No such file or
> directory)

This is to be expected, since there is no vt7.  You can reproduce the
error with `xinit -- vt7` or `chvt 7`.  As Arne suggested [1], you
should use nodm ATM: the latter starts X11 on vt4, which is the last tty
available as character device.

This is a known problem and nodm should be adjusted to the default in
Debian, i.e. it should check for the first unused vt starting from the
seventh one [2].

Thus, this bug is both a reminder and a note for other people who
experiences the same problem.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2008-November/000385.html
[2] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2008-November/000369.html

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: armel (armv4tl)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-20080903.git2ea34171 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nodm depends on:
ii  x11-common                    1:7.3+18   X Window System (X.Org)
infrastruc
ii  xinit                         1.0.9-2    X server initialisation
tool

nodm recommends no packages.

nodm suggests no packages.

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