Bug 204326

Summary:	/etc/init.d/xdm stop/restart broken for kdm
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hanno Böck <hanno>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo, pesa, uberlord, x11
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hanno Böck gentoo-dev

2008-01-04 20:06:25 UTC

Quote from /etc/init.d/xdm:
 # kdm takes too long to create a pidfile for baselayout-2
 #PIDFILE=/var/run/kdm.pid
 PIDFILE=

This is probably not a very good idea, as it causes /etc/init.d/xdm stop/restart to fail every time.

Comment 1 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-11 08:17:47 UTC

Roy, can you comment on the baselayout-2 part of this?

Comment 2 Ken Rushia 2008-02-03 18:04:33 UTC

Confirmed here, the xdm init script now fails to start kdm on boot. This was discussed a little bit at http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-650321.html (ignore the poor attitude there).

Comment 3 Ken Rushia 2008-02-03 21:44:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)

Oops. Ignore my last comment, I somehow responded to the wrong bug :-p

Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-02-27 19:12:52 UTC

I'd say this is something that needs to be fixed within KDM then. Could someone from the KDE Herd confirm that this is still a bug?

Thanks

Comment 5 Davide Pesavento (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-03 23:15:15 UTC

Well, I'm not a developer, but I can say that with more recent OpenRC releases (0.4.3{,-r1} for sure, maybe 0.4.2 too) this is no longer an issue. More precisely: kdm hasn't been fixed to create a pid file earlier, but openrc seems to be able to stop/restart it without any problem now.

Comment 6 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-03 23:28:06 UTC

yep openrc restars nicely, so lets stable it :]
(and i am the developer :D)

Comment 7 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-03-04 10:05:44 UTC

So maybe we could drop the PIDFILE foo from the xdm script entirely?

@Rob, what say you?

Cheers

Comment 8 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-11-09 11:57:30 UTC

Is this still supposed to be a problem with Baselayout 1 and KDM 4.3.1 or 4.3.3, or was this limited to KDM 3.x ?

Comment 9 Davide Pesavento (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-11-09 16:28:49 UTC

This is definitely *not* an issue with kdm 4.3.x and openrc >= 0.4.3.

Comment 10 Theo Chatzimichos (RETIRED) archtester

2009-11-22 17:38:42 UTC

this one seems fixed, closing