Re: Occasional failure of X to start

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Richmond wrote:
> Nov 07 19:38:37 systemd[1]: xdm.service: Main process exited,
> code=killed, status=12/USR2 Nov 07 19:38:37 systemd[1]: xdm.service:
> Failed with result 'signal'.

Googling "xdm USR2" brings me to
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=948346
which shows the same message.

The bug seems to be still open and tagged with "help":
  https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags
  "help
   The maintainer is requesting help with dealing with this bug.
   Either the maintainer does not have the skills necessary to fix this
   bug and desires collaboration, or is overloaded and wants to delegate
   this task. [...]"

I understand that logrotate sends signal USR2 to xdm to tell it that
it shall close and reopen the log file, because the old one was renamed
and a new current log file was created.
Introduced possibly because of
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285871

It would be interesting to learn whether after such a start failure
on your machine the file
  /var/log/xdm.log
shows indications that it was created newly.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas