[Bug 79620] Re: gdm's socket in /tmp is deleted by bootclean

[zpeedo77]

Hi,

I had the same Problem (solved by the info above, thanks!). Gnome
Display Manager (GDM) startet with an old default theme (all gdm
customizations seemed to be gone), a kind of "Reboot Button" at the
logout window was not there anymore.

If I tried to start gdmsetup: "Failed to connect to socket", "Could not
access GDM configuration file" (In german: "Zugriff auf die GDM-
Konfigurationsdatei war nicht möglich").

I run Ubuntu 6.10. I have "Boot Up Manager" (BUM) installed, and disable
unneeded serices there. I also use 'sysv-rc-conf" --priority'.

Today I saw in BUM that bootclean script was disabled, anyway I wanted
it enabled now. After doing this the problem was there.

After disabling bootclean in BUM the problem is gone.

Obviously it is just a small incompatibility issue between GDM and
bootclean (and BUM!?), that occurs, if bootclean is executed after the
gdm socketfile is written, as mentioned in the other posts.

I agree that it is not really a GDM bug. But as I don't remember if I
installed bootclean or it's installed as standard or wether I disabled
it in BUM, it's hard to say, where the problem lies. Anyway I am quite
sure that I didn't change anything with the symlinks to init.d manually.

It just has to be taken care of, that bootclean is never run to late in
the boot process (hence the note in the script). Or maybe it would be
possible, to integrate an (interactive/file creation date aware, etc.)
file exception list into the bootclean script?!

thx

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gdm's socket in /tmp is deleted by bootclean
https://launchpad.net/bugs/79620