Package: dpkg Version: 1.6.1 Severity: normal in gdm (and other display managers) --no-restart-on-upgrade is specified to dh_installinit, causing the daemon to keep running when it is upgraded. (Having X suddenly die would be bad, of course).
The problem is that you are now running a process whose inode no longer exists on the disk. This causes start-stop-daemon (when passed the --exec) option on a stop, to fail. A workaround would be to not specify the --exec option to start-stop-daemon, but that defeats the purpose of the option. The other solution would be to change start-stop-daemon so it only checks that the specified name is correct, not the inode where it is stored on disk. -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux cyberhq 2.2.13 #1 SMP Wed Oct 20 07:46:28 PDT 1999 i686 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone ii libncurses4 4.2-3.4 Shared libraries for terminal handling
