Bug#196736: xfree86-common: authentication failures

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Package: xfree86-common
Version: 4.2.1-7
Severity: critical

Since the lastest upgrade (from 4.2.1-6) I can no longer login through
xdm. I keep seeing these errors on xdm.log:

 AUDIT: Mon Jun  9 12:03:40 2003: 7369 X: client 2 rejected from local host
   Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1

I looked at bugreports of xdm and added this line to xdm-config:

  DisplayManager*AuthName: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

Magically, the xdm look changed back to it's original state (colorful,
instead of a plain b&w), but I'm still not able to login (same error on
xdm.log). I also had to manually remove stale auth files!

I think this is not xdm related, but a general GRAVE packaging problem
of the whole xfree stuff.

I'm also NOT able to downgrade to 4.2.1-6. apt-get install
xfree86-common=4.2.1-6 don't find the package! Any hints about
downgrading?


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux hydra 2.4.20 #1 Fri May 23 15:34:45 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages xfree86-common depends on:
ii  debconf                       1.2.39     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   2.5.2      Miscellaneous utilities specific t

-- debconf information:
  xfree86-common/experimental_packages: