On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:31:21AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > I’m sorry, but I can’t reproduce that. In fact, if you look at gdm.init, > > > you’ll see that it never fails for the stop action, so I don’t > > > understand how you could get this error. > > > > Well, it happened; I'm not making this up. > > I’m not saying that, but I don’t have a clue. > > Is your /etc/init.d/gdm script customized one way or another?
No, not at all. This happened on a fairly fresh lenny system, installed just a couple of days earier with the d-i beta. I used it for a few days with GNOME before deciding to switch back to my preferred KDE environment, which is when I experienced the problem with gdm. I had initially removed the GNOME packages using aptitude in single user mode, and gdm failed to remove. After still failing to remove the package with dpkg -r, I submitted this bug report and removed the package by inserting "exit 0" early in the prerm script. IIRC I had installed KDE before removing GNOME. Since, of course, I no longer have gdm installed, I'll probably have trouble replicating this problem. I'll see if I can find time to install a qemu system or something and try to follow similar steps... noah
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