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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] stop and start x-server from console
From:       Felix Miata <mrmazda () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2013-12-31 1:16:31
Message-ID: 52C21AEF.8000106 () earthlink ! net
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On 2013-12-31 01:11 (GMT+0100) Istvan Gabor composed:

> > Are you really using xdm? Won't it be kdm, or kdm3, or kdm4, or gdm?

> > The one you really use must match the "DISPLAYMANAGER" entry in the \
> > "/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager" file.

> That is set to kdm3.

> # cat /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager |grep DISPLAYMANAGER=
> DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm3"

> But there is no kdm3 script in /etc/init.d/ to start/stop kdm3.

> I can stop kdm3 by killing it (kill xxxx).

> init 5 then restarts kdm3, it seems that part is OK.

> Now I have to trace why kdm3 is not stopped by init 3.

I thought a possible workaround might be to look in kdmrc, find any instances 
of TerminateServer=false and if found, change it/them to true. I booted a 
12.2/KDE3 system here with sysvinit-init installed directly to runlevel 5. 
Init 3 from tty3 root login fails to stop KDM here too.

NAICT, it is /etc/init.d/xdm that starts whatever DM is configured in 
/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager's DISPLAYMANAGER.

I tried copying the smaller xdm file from the host's 12.1 partition to 12.2's 
and repeating. Init 3 still fails to stop KDM.

Looks like https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783862 needs some 
serious poking. I'm afraid our best solution may turn out to be not using 
runlevel 5 at all, startx instead.
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