Philip: || On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 14:17, Vincent Zweije wrote: || > I suspect xdm needs a restart after the upgrade of libnss_compat. || > || > A simple "/etc/init.d/xdm restart" is *not* advisable though, as many || > (including me) would be thrown out of their root shell in the X session. || || Thanks for the report. Do you have any suggestions as to how xdm might || be safely restarted?
Difficult. I think you're looking for a way where you can restart the xdm master process, and leave any other active-display-session process running until the session is over. Then it should die (not just reset (not sure if it normally dies)), and the new master process should start a fresh process for the display. It is conceivable that you can't get any further than give a warning that xdm should be restarted manually to prevent killing a user session. Come to think of it, you may want to check with gdm, kdm, and whatever-other-dm if they suffer the same problem. Ciao. Vincent.