[Splashy-devel] Bug#455685: splashy: GDM no longer start automagically on Lenny + Appologies

[Valentin QUEQUET]

Package: splashy
Version: 0.3.8-1
Followup-For: Bug #455685


First, now I've foun that package 'splashy' is guilty, I would like to
appologize for having filed a bug report against packages 'initscripts' and
'lsb-base'. 

Here follows my bugreport for the two other packages: (except a typo for
initscripts)

Hello, the hurd.

I've got a problem with 'gdm' on my Debian GNU/Linux Lenny/Sid system.

My problem is that on my system, maily based on both 'lenny' and 'sid' and
up-to-date as of yesterday 22-February-2008, gdm is NO LONGER started
automa-
tically from the normal startup sequence.

Further action via '/etc/init.d/gdm {start|stop} doesn't help either.

Replacing '/usr/sbin/gdm' by a logging hook program, I diagnosed that my
hook
program, and thus the actual gdm binary ( /usr/sbin/gdm.original ), WAS NOT
LAUNCHED.

Could you please help me diagnose this problem.

Here follows a list of packages of interest I run with their version:

linux-image-2.6.24-1-686 2.6.24-4   (from Sid)
initscripts 2.86.ds1-53   (from Lenny)
lsb-base 3.1-24   (from Lenny)
sysvinit-utils 2.86.ds1-53   (from Lenny)
debianutils 2.28.3   (from Lenny)
libc6 2.7-6   (from Lenny)
splashy 0.3.8-1   (from Lenny)
splashy-themes 0.4   (from Lenny)
libsplashy1 0.3.8-1   (from Lenny)


The problem is the same when I run the following kernel instead:
linux-image-2.6.22-3-k7 2.6.22-6.lenny1   (from Lenny)


Then, any hint?

I highly suggest this be a bug (discrepancy of packages' expectations) of
initscripts, lsb-base and *splashy* . Or is 'gdm' mis-registered?

Sincerely,
Valentin QUEQUET


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-k7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages splashy depends on:
ii  initramfs-tools        0.91e             tools for generating an initramfs
ii  libc6                  2.7-6             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdirectfb-1.0-0      1.0.1-7           direct frame buffer graphics - sha
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3-20080202-1  GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.14.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libmagic1              4.23-2            File type determination library us
ii  libsplashy1            0.3.8-1           Library to draw splash screen on b
ii  lsb-base               3.1-24            Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime

splashy recommends no packages.

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