The xdm init script successfully starts gdm, writing a pid file to /run/gdm.pid. When stopping gdm, the init script looks for a pid file in /run/gdm/gdm.pid, which does not exist. As a consequence, gdm can not be stopped through openrc init scripts. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. rc-service xdm start 2. rc-service xdm stop 3. Actual Results: xdm/gdm is not properly stopped in step 2. start-stop-daemon complains about non-existing pid file /run/gdm/gdm.pid. Expected Results: xdm/gdm should be stopped in step 2. Portage 2.2.7 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.15-r3, 3.10.17-gentoo-2013-10-01 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.10.17-gentoo-2013-10-01-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8400_@_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 3884336 total, 2280880 free KiB Swap: 3999992 total, 3999992 free Timestamp of tree: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 00:45:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r3, 3.2.5-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::<unknown repository>, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.5-r1, 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.7.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r3 Repositories: gentoo science FBI-software Installed sets: @system ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/lib/hsqldb /var/spool/maui /var/spool/torque" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64" DISTDIR="/adm/swinstall/gentoo/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="-j 3 --keep-going y" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fail-clean fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch parallel-install preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon64" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://de-mirror.org/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/adm/swinstall/gentoo/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/adm/swinstall/gentoo/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/science /adm/swinstall/gentoo/overlay" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi adns afs alsa amd64 ao audiofile auto-hinter avahi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bindist blas bluetooth bonobo branding bzip2 cairo calendar caps 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python qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline recode ruby sasl scanner sdl session sharedmem shorten simplexml slang slp sndfile soap socialweb sockets sox speex spell sqlite sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysvipc szip taglib tcl tcpd theora threads tidy tiff tk tokenizer truetype twolame udev udisks unicode upower usb vaapi vcd vdpau vim-syntax vorbis vpx wavpack webstart win32codecs wmf wxwidgets x264 xcb xft xine xinetd xml xmlrpc xpm xsl xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache 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/etc/init.d/xdm is part of x11-base/xorg-server. Which version of that is installed on your system?
I have x11-base/xorg-server-1.14.3-r2 (latest stable) installed.
All this should be completely fixed with current versions in the tree
