Re: xdm receives no input

[Patrick Welche <prlw1%cam.ac.uk@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 05:17:10PM +0000, Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> /etc/ttys ?

Absolutely right. This laptop's xdm worked before the update, so I doubted
your suggestion.

What happened is that the update replaced my /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.ws
in which I had carefully set vt08 as the terminal to use. The update
changed it to vt05, which was inconsistent with my /etc/ttys.

Editing /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers back to vt08 fixed things.

mystery solved!


Cheers,

Patrick