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Re: missing consoles



On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:29:18PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> Obviously kdm is not detaching as a background process.  Perhaps it
> doesn't fork?  Anyway, you can try the --background argument to
> start-stop-daemon and see if that helps.  Note: you can't rely on the
> exit status of start-stop-daemon to tell you anything useful with
> "--background".

That worked beautifully.  It fixes all the problems I've been having with
kdm and my virtual terminals.

Should I report this as a bug in kem (it certainly seems like a bug to me)?
If so, do you have any idea whether it might be an easy bug to fix?

Thanks for your help, by the way!
-- 
David Roundy
http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/



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