#233204 xdm: please readd LockPidFile behaviour

Package:
xdm
Source:
xdm
Description:
X display manager
Submitter:
"Bernhard R. Link"
Date:
2010-11-03 10:36:33 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#233204#5
Date:
2004-02-17 11:44:24 UTC
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The patch 002_xdm_fixes.diff (at least the version
714 2003-10-25 01:35:48Z branden in 4.2.1-16) removes the ability
to lock the PID-file. (The part within the "if (lockPidFile)") and
instead stops starting if there is any file at all. This causes xdm
to not restart when it terminated abnormally or otherwise left
the pid-file. (Which is does very often here.)

Alternatively some paramter to make xdm not looking at the pid-file
at all would be nice, so that something like my /etc/inittab line
9:2:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon
would again work around xdm terminating so often...
#233204#10
Date:
2010-11-03 10:07:26 UTC
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That's a pretty old version now...
Well, it looks like this patch is no longer distributed with the
package.

Are you still experiencing the issue with current version ?
#233204#15
Date:
2010-11-03 10:33:28 UTC
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That part of the patch was applied upstream as
commit c925709069d7515bb94f43e4b88155a95e41c8fe, fwiw.

Cheers,
Julien
#233204#18
Date:
2010-11-03 10:33:28 UTC
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That part of the patch was applied upstream as
commit c925709069d7515bb94f43e4b88155a95e41c8fe, fwiw.

Cheers,
Julien