[Bug 23828] Re: GDM init script has weird line (breaks it for me)

[Paul Smith]

I can reproduce this, but ONLY during installation from the LiveCD.
Also, my testing was with Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS ISO image.

What happened: I write the above ISO to CD and tried to boot with it.
The detected video driver ("ati") does not work on my system for
whatever reason, so X failed to start and I eventually got a console
prompt.  I used "ps" and determined that GDM was still running.  I ran
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop, then used ps again and determined GDM was
STILL running.  No matter how many times I ran it, GDM was never
stopped.  If I used kill on it, it stopped immediately.

I ran sudo /bin/sh -x /etc/init.d/gdm stop and discovered that start-
stop-daemon was being invoked with the --exec flag (that is, SSD_ARG was
set to "--exec /usr/sbin/gdm").  This did not seem to work.  If I ran
start-stop-daemon by hand, using the same command line but leaving out
the --exec, it worked fine and GDM was stopped.

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GDM init script has weird line (breaks it for me)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/23828