Package: xdm Version: 4.2.1-00woody.16 Severity: wishlist The patch 002_xdm_fixes.diff (at least the version 714 2003-10-25 01:35:48Z branden in 4.2.1-16) removes the ability to lock the PID-file. (The part within the "if (lockPidFile)") and instead stops starting if there is any file at all. This causes xdm to not restart when it terminated abnormally or otherwise left the pid-file. (Which is does very often here.)
Alternatively some paramter to make xdm not looking at the pid-file at all would be nice, so that something like my /etc/inittab line 9:2:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon would again work around xdm terminating so often... -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux pcpool09 2.4.24pcp #1 Mon Jan 5 18:01:12 CET 2004 i686 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], LC_CTYPE=de_DE Versions of packages xdm depends on: ii cpp 2:2.95.4-14 The GNU C preprocessor. ii libc6 2.2.5-11.5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libpam0g 0.72-35 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libxaw7 4.2.1-00woody.16 X Athena widget set library ii xbase-clients 4.2.1-00woody.16 miscellaneous X clients ii xlibs 4.2.1-00woody.16 X Window System client libraries
