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Bug 236701

Summary: [gnome overlay] gnome-base/gdm-2.23.90 start-stop-daemon in startDM.sh needs -b option
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Florian Steinel <Florian.Steinel>
Component: [OLD] GNOMEAssignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: peter.saaf
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550170
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 238650    
Attachments: startDM.patch

Description Florian Steinel 2008-09-04 14:47:10 UTC
without the -b option, "xdm start" never finishes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Florian Steinel 2008-09-04 14:49:51 UTC
Created attachment 164565 [details, diff]
startDM.patch
Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-09-06 08:46:43 UTC
patching startDM.sh is not the solution, upstream needs to make gdm backward compatible.

please also note that is _masked_ and in _overlay_ so you better work with upstream for this kind of bug (and pass by on irc before that if you don't feel so confortable, have a chat with us on #gentoo-desktop).
Comment 3 Mart Raudsepp gentoo-dev 2008-09-06 18:54:28 UTC
I think the issue was that startDM.sh is used for launching other desktop managers as well (xdm, kdm and so on), and as those don't take a -b argument, it'll break those. That's at least what I heard from remi or someone - for some clarification. Feel free to check if my recalling of this #gentoo-desktop chat is true
Comment 4 Peter Sääf 2008-10-14 15:56:36 UTC
Upstream bug #550170 has a patch to restore the previous behaviour of forking unless run with --nodaemon.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=120573&action=view
Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-15 06:56:44 UTC
don't you see we are CCed there already ? Thanks for not adding noise if not needed.
Comment 6 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-10-19 09:45:09 UTC
this has fixed in overlay since monday or so.