Bug#372114: the problem is caused by a Debian patch under debian/patches
First some precisions. The problem seems to only appear when the X
server is killed while the login screen is displayed.
I compiled xdm without the patches debian/patches/*.diff
$ :>debian/patches/series
and tested it. The problem does not appear anymore i.e. the file
/var/run/xdm.pid remains after a kill of the X server while the login
screen is displayed. But when one stops xdm
$ /etc/init.d/xdm stop
... (...removing stale pid file...)
a surprising message is displayed and xdm is killed nonetheless. Does
one of the patches fixes this possible problem?
There are thus indications that the problem comes from a Debian patch.
So if it is not to be fixed, please mention it in the README.Debian.
Incidentally I noted that xdm cannot bear two X server kills while X
server is displaying the login screen. After the second kill the X
server is not restarted anymore. The man page of xdm does not describe
the behaviour in such a case. I see this as a bug, maybe related to this
one, maybe not. Should it be reported somewhere else?
Regards
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