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Bug#270393: xdm.pid not checked properly



Branden Robinson:
> What, specifically, do you posit is wrong with the existing code?

Two issues:

1) The daemon itself creates the pid file but does not properly
   remove it when something goes wrong during startup, in example
   if it can't start the x-server.

2) The daemon itself creates the pid file, but the pid seems to be
   checked by the init.d script/start-stop-daemon, which is a somewhat
   unusual und non-intuitive behaviour.

The problem can be reproduced easily: Do something to make the xdm
startup at boot fail (maybe because of a wrong setting in XF86Config,
a not yet recompiled nvidia-driver after a kernel update, ...) then
try to run xdm from the command line (not via the init script, but
directly).

Imho the clean solution is to have the pid file properly removed when
xdm shuts down for whatever reason, and have xdm check the pid in the
file itself.






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