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- To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
- Subject: kdm: should check for a new X11 server binary before starting it
- From: laurent bonnaud <Laurent.Bonnaud@inpg.fr>
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 20:05:32 +0100
- Message-id: <E161uUX-000499-00@irancy.lis.inpg.fr>
Package: kdm
Version: 4:2.2.1.0-6
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
I usually have very long running X11 sessions. During those sessions I often
upgrade the xserver-xfree86 package (thanks to Branden's continous upgrade flow
:>), which installs a new X11 server binary. In this situation, dpkg and the
kernel keep both binaries on disk. The old one is kept as long as it is still
running or used by kdm.
There are 2 problems with this :
- when the X11 session ends gracefully, kdm keeps the same X11 process. So
the new server version is not used and the old binary disk space is not
freed.
- if the X11 server crashes, kdm still restarts the old version. I noticed
this while trying to reproduce a crash. It took me a while to figure out
that kdm and startx did not use the same server !
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux irancy 2.4.12-686 #2 Sat Oct 13 20:13:05 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii afterstep [x-window-ma 1.8.10-1 A window manager with the NEXTSTEP
ii amiwm [x-window-manage 0.20.48-5 The Amiga look-alike window manage
ii blackbox [x-window-man 0.61.1-1.1 Window manager for X
ii ctwm [x-window-manager 3.5.2-4 Claude's Tab window manager
ii debconf 1.0.18 Debian configuration management sy
ii enlightenment [x-windo 0.16.5-4 The Enlightenment Window Manager
ii flwm [x-window-manager 1.00-4 Fast Light Window Manager
ii fvwm [x-window-manager 2.4.0-3 F(?) Virtual Window Manager, versi
ii gnome-session [x-sessi 1.4.0.4-12 The Gnome Session Manager
ii gwm [x-window-manager] 1.8d-2 The generic window manager.
ii icewm [x-window-manage 1.0.9.2-2 A wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like
ii icewm-experimental [x- 1.0.9.2-2 A wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like
ii icewm-gnome [x-window- 1.0.9.2-2 A wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like
ii icewm-lite [x-window-m 1.0.9.2-2 A wonderful Win95-OS/2-Motif-like
ii kdebase [x-session-man 4:2.2.1.0-6 KDE core applications
ii kdelibs3 4:2.2.1-14 KDE core libraries (runtime files)
ii larswm [x-window-manag 7.0.13-2 Lars Window Manager with tiled win
ii lesstif-bin [x-window- 1:0.93.12-4 User binaries for LessTif.
ii libc6 2.2.4-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libjpeg62 6b-1.3 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpam-modules 0.72-33 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam0g 0.72-33 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpng2 1.0.12-2 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt2 2:2.3.2-1 Qt GUI Library (runtime version).
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
ii lwm [x-window-manager] 1.01-2 Lightweight Window Manager
ii olvwm [x-window-manage 4.1.3.2p1.4-14 OpenLook virtual window manager
ii oroborus [x-window-man 1.14.0-6 A lightweight themeable windowmana
ii pwm [x-window-manager] 1.0.20010309-6 Lightweight window manager with fr
ii qvwm [x-window-manager 1:1.1.11-0.1 Windows95 like window manager for
ii ratpoison [x-window-ma 1.0.0-1 Simple window manager with no fat
ii sawfish-gnome [x-windo 1.0.1-2 A highly configurable window manag
ii twm [x-window-manager] 4.1.0-9 Tab window manager
ii wmaker [x-window-manag 0.70.0-1 NeXTSTEP-like window manager for X
ii xbase-clients 4.1.0-9 miscellaneous X clients
ii xlibs 4.1.0-9 X Window System client libraries
ii xutils 4.1.0-9 X Window System utility programs
ii zlib1g 1:1.1.3-16 compression library - runtime
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