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.
Roy, can you comment on the baselayout-2 part of this?
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).
(In reply to comment #2) Oops. Ignore my last comment, I somehow responded to the wrong bug :-p
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
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.
yep openrc restars nicely, so lets stable it :] (and i am the developer :D)
So maybe we could drop the PIDFILE foo from the xdm script entirely? @Rob, what say you? Cheers
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 ?
This is definitely *not* an issue with kdm 4.3.x and openrc >= 0.4.3.
this one seems fixed, closing
