Ubuntu
gdm package

  1. Bug #23828
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 23828

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Paul Smith (psmith-gnu) wrote :

I can reproduce this, but ONLY during installation from the LiveCD. Also, my testing was with Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS ISO image.

What happened: I write the above ISO to CD and tried to boot with it. The detected video driver ("ati") does not work on my system for whatever reason, so X failed to start and I eventually got a console prompt. I used "ps" and determined that GDM was still running. I ran sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop, then used ps again and determined GDM was STILL running. No matter how many times I ran it, GDM was never stopped. If I used kill on it, it stopped immediately.

I ran sudo /bin/sh -x /etc/init.d/gdm stop and discovered that start-stop-daemon was being invoked with the --exec flag (that is, SSD_ARG was set to "--exec /usr/sbin/gdm"). This did not seem to work. If I ran start-stop-daemon by hand, using the same command line but leaving out the --exec, it worked fine and GDM was stopped.