Well, I found the problem. I was running procps-0.99-1, which clearly has some problems. When I upgraded to procps-0.99-3, 'ps a' produces a much fuller list, including the entry for xdm. Kill on the proper pid does the trick. I'm still not sure why the start/stop script didn't work. Maybe it will work now that I have a good ps.
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