Package: lightdm Version: 1.0.10-1 Severity: wishlist File: /etc/init.d/lightdm
Sometimes in order to avoid problems with a known-wonky startup, I edit the GRUB menu while booting to temporarily add the "text" parameter to the boot command line, for that boot only. The lightdm init script cleverly detects that parameter and bails out early, which is a very useful feature. The drawback is that, after making whatever changes I needed to make, there's no way to simply start the display manager without rebooting. Running the init script by hand (or via invoke-rc.d) will *unconditionally* exit early if the kernel parameter was ever present. It's probably good to continue to do that for the "start" action, but it would be handy to be able to say "no, really, run it now" without having to reboot or build up an equivalent start-stop-daemon commandline by hand. Perhaps the main switch statement at line 35-ish could be extended to check for "start|force-start" and then the subsequent if-then-else chain could only test /proc/cmdline if the $1 action were not the "force-" variant? -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages lightdm depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu1 ii consolekit 0.4.5-3 ii dbus 1.5.12-1 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.42 ii libc6 2.13-27 ii libglib2.0-0 2.32.0-3 ii libpam0g 1.1.3-7 ii libxcb1 1.8.1-1 ii libxdmcp6 1:1.1.0-4 ii lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.0.10-1 Versions of packages lightdm recommends: ii xserver-xorg 1:7.6+12 Versions of packages lightdm suggests: pn accountsservice <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf changed [not included] -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
