Bug 598268

Summary: /etc/X11/prefdm should fall back on xdm too
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Cantrell <dcantrell>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 13CC: clumens, iarlyy, jonathan, notting, plautrba, rvokal
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Description David Cantrell 2010-06-01 00:05:45 UTC 
The /etc/X11/prefdm script lacks this line:

    exec xdm "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null

After the fallback attempts on gdm and kdm.  Would be nice to have xdm as the third fallback attempt.  Without this line, the user is required to create /etc/sysconfig/desktop with the following contents:

    DISPLAYMANAGER=xdm

In order for the system to boot up to a login screen.  Without the DISPLAYMANAGER setting, the system will appear to hang on boot up.  Adding the 'exec xdm' fallback attempt line would be nice to have.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2010-06-01 21:48:17 UTC 
This is intentional, per the request of the xdm package maintainer.