Bug#438196: Bug #438196: xdm does not create /var/run/xdm.pid

["Dr. Markus Waldeck" <waldeck@gmx.de>]

> There are very few changes in 1.1.5-2, so it's unlikely that the xdm.pid
> problem was fixed there. Did you reproduce the problem multiple times
> with 1.1.5-1? Or is it possible that it occurred only at the first
> restart (or only multiple times until you rebooted or so)?

As a chemist I learned a magic word which is called "reproducibility" :-).

I updated on wednesday and noticed the problem after booting on thursday morning. The problem persisted two reboots.

After each boot "/etc/init.d/xdm start" was issued several times 
followed by stopping with pkill xdm and checking with ps.


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