Bug 236701 – [gnome overlay] gnome-base/gdm-2.23.90 start-stop-daemon in startDM.sh needs -b option

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[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) 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 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) 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) 2008-10-19 09:45:09 UTC]

this has fixed in overlay since monday or so.