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jeff777
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 Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:48 am Post subject: "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" doesn't work [solved] |
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When I run "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" I get the message "Error stopping GDM". GDM and Xorg still stop, but I need to run the command again to make init realize it. I tried to figure out why, but I don't understand the init script and can't figure out why it's giving this error.
This wouldn't be much of a problem, except that I need to stop xdm as part of a suspend to ram script. Can anyone give me any suggestions on how to fix the init script.
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:54 am Post subject: |
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Change the start-stop-daemon line in /etc/init.d/xdm to:
| Code: | start-stop-daemon --stop \
--exec ${myexe} --verbose |
That increases the chance of it showing a useful error message. |
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bunder
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:55 am Post subject: |
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could it be taking too long to stop? amavisd-new does that to me on my mail server. (i don't know the fix unfortunately)
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PaulBredbury
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| Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:05 am Post subject: |
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man start-stop-daemon and look at "--retry"  |
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jeff777
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Thanks for your help, everyone. I figured out how the start-stop-daemon command works and I can use it in place of /etc/init.d/xdm stop, like so: | Code: |
start-stop-daemon --stop --exec /usr/bin/gdm |
This work around is good enough for now. I'll try to figure out why the init script fails some other time. I've got more annoying Gentoo bugs to work on right now.  |
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