On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Philippe Troin wrote: > > 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.
That's not true. examin with ps -ef > > 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 trouble. 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 kills X before start-stop-daemon. Sometimes, no message appears, and I > assume that happens when start-stop-daemon kills X before xdm. Ok, what happens is: PID (ex.) COMMAND 151 /usr/bin/X11/xdm 159 \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/X 160 \_ -:0 ;(local display-server) shutdown invokes k01xdm: star-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --exec /usr/bin/X11/xdm invoked "by hand" prints same message: "[...] failed to kill 160: No such process stopped /usr/bin/X11/xdm (pid 160)" which gets printed by start-stop-daemon script (r1.2.13): [...] for $pid (@found) { if ($testmode) { [...]; } else { if (kill($signal,$pid)) { push(@killed,$pid); is this wrong ? } else { print "start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill $pid:$!\n";# } } Maybe Jan can help? > > I have no fix yet. (It's only a minor annoyance) you can always use ssd --quite ;) > > Phil. > > > Michael Gaertner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tel/Fax +49-761-32684