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Re: Bug#59683: xdm: when upgrading xdm to gdm xdm daemon fails to shutdown.



> > probably just needs a package script change....... :)
> You did not provide me with nearly enough information to know what you're
> talking about.
> I suspect you're assuming that gdm and xdm cannot coexist.  They can, but
> they need to be careful that don't both try to manage the same servers.
> Please describe your scenario on debian-user and get back to me if there is
> an actual bug here.

ok.  sorry i didn't give more information, but i've never used the bug
submit system before.  i dunno what's expected.  lemme
explain.  (debian-user is the mailing list, right?)

generic slink r2 system, immediately updated to potato-current.

followed by:

apt-get install gdm

says that it will remove xdm and install gdm.  ok, this happens.  sort of.

when xdm is 'removed', the already-running copy doesn't exit.  so gdm,
when it starts up, tries to take over the same server.

what would be great would be for the script that removes xdm to also take
the time to shut down any copies of the server that are running.  its a
trivial thing, but it would really be nice.

a reboot certainly would have fixed this issue for me, but it would be
much cleaner to have the thing shut down as it gets uninstalled (this
seems to be a semi-standard feature of daemons that are getting
removed... xdm is the first one i've seen that doesn't do it.)

make more sense?  




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