From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OoRgA-0005xV-3S for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:54:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2585E0909; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:53:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.viabit.com (mail2.viabit.com [65.246.80.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C94BE0909 for ; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 01:53:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-68-49-223-78.hsd1.md.comcast.net [68.49.223.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail2.viabit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8C461DCE04 for ; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:53:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4C75C92F.6070507@orlitzky.com> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:53:51 -0400 From: Michael Orlitzky User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100809 Thunderbird/3.1.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager References: <4C75270A.3090909@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f0d223ab-58f4-4064-90b7-cbe56852512a X-Archives-Hash: 2e07f4398f13bb19769a0c3d3ff18bb4 On 08/25/2010 03:37 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I had more or less the opposite case -- a running daemon that was marked > as stopped. > Not exactly, because it was xdm marked as stopped, and kdm that was running. > > This problem is repeatable on my system, so I probably borked it somehow. Please accept this wild-ass guess from when my Apache instances used to do the same thing. /etc/conf.d/rc -------------- # Set to "yes" if start-stop-daemon should attempt to kill # any children left in the system. # Be careful with this as it really does what it was on the tin. # fex, if you're in an ssh process and you restart a service on which # ssh depends then your terminal will be killed also. RC_KILL_CHILDREN="yes"