Bug 1510

Summary:	xorg will use /xorg.conf if loaded from gdm
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Tor Klingberg <tor.klingberg>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high	CC:	dberkholz, matthieu.herrb
Version:	6.7.0
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Description Tor Klingberg 2004-10-01 14:04:29 UTC

If there happen to exist a file /xorg.conf, then that file will be used instead
of /etc/X11/xorg.conf when X is loaded with gdm during init. 

I have this bug in Gentoo with gdm started by the Gentoo init scripts. Still, I
believe xorg should never use the file /xorg.conf

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure you use x.org and gdm
2. echo FOOBAR>/xorg.conf
3. reboot

Actual Results:  
X won't start, complaining about error in xorg.conf

Expected Results:  
Used /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and started properly.

/var/log/Xorg.0.log will say 'Using config file: "//xorg.conf"'

running '/etc/init.d/xdm start' will fail the same way.
running /usr/bin/gdm does does NOT fail.

I also tried creating a trivial /etc/init.d/gdm that did nothing but 
run /usr/bin/gdm. Then running '/etc/init.d/gdm start' worked fine, but adding 
gdm to init (rc-update add gdm default) would still fail just like xdm.

I do not know if this problem also exists with kdm and xdm.

This bug is also reported in Gentoo Bugzilla at
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55540

Comment 1 Matthieu Herrb 2004-10-03 01:45:57 UTC

for root ${HOME}/xorg.conf is tried before /etc/X11/. 
If HOME is not defined, it defaults to /.

Comment 2 Shawn Starr 2005-10-04 15:13:55 UTC

The paths for where xorg is found is being cleaned up see #4641

Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2006-04-15 05:22:59 UTC

not a bug, see comment 2.

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