Bug 73231

Summary:	selecting X and Gnome but not gdm and xdm apparently removes xinitrc from packages to install
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Telsa Gwynne <hobbit>
Component:	comps	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Version:	null	CC:	rvokal
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Description Telsa Gwynne 2002-09-01 13:11:38 UTC

Description of Problem:

installed (null) onto old vaio laptop. Knew I'd never want to boot straight
to X or to use a display manager. So removed xdm and gdm from the package 
selection (didn't have KDE so no kdm either).Did keep X 'group' and Gnome 
group on though.

Booted, typed startx and got black screen and an xterm with no window manager.
'gnome-session' in the terminal brought up Gnome.

I have no xinitrc package installed though. I presume it is the lack of
this that caused no gnome-session, and guess that it got removed somehow
because I didn't install any display manager? 

Is this NOTABUG or is this a wrong dependency?

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2002-09-02 04:45:31 UTC

Hm, yeah, fixed in comps.