On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:07:26 +0100, Julien Viard de Galbert wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 12:44:24PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > > Package: xdm > > Version: 4.2.1-00woody.16 > That's a pretty old version now... > > Severity: wishlist > > > > The patch 002_xdm_fixes.diff (at least the version > > 714 2003-10-25 01:35:48Z branden in 4.2.1-16) removes the ability > > to lock the PID-file. (The part within the "if (lockPidFile)") and > > instead stops starting if there is any file at all. This causes xdm > > to not restart when it terminated abnormally or otherwise left > > the pid-file. (Which is does very often here.) > Well, it looks like this patch is no longer distributed with the > package. > That part of the patch was applied upstream as commit c925709069d7515bb94f43e4b88155a95e41c8fe, fwiw. Cheers, Julien
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