Phil, Michael, Maybe pstree (and friends mentioned in the man page) can help you to trace the problem Lazaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: shutdown: non-existing PID Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date: 07.08.96 02:39
On Tue, 06 Aug 1996 15:42:37 +0200 Michael Gaertner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > shutdown -h now > > console-message: > "start-stop-daemon:warning: failed to kill 218: No such process" > > Indeed there is no PID 218. BTW the pid-number changes with every > shutdown. > I think it has something to do with X Windows because I have another > debian-system without X Windows installed - and I don't get this message. I have the same minor problem, and it's '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' which causes the t rouble. From what I've found, start-stop-daemon will kill the process tree of the daemon to stop. In case of xdm, it will try to kill xdm first, then X. But, xdm kills X too when it's about to shutdown. The message appears when xdm ki lls X before start-stop-daemon. Sometimes, no message appears, and I assume that happens when start-stop-daemon kills X before xdm. I have no fix yet. (It's only a minor annoyance) Phil.