I don't believe either lightdm or kdm try to kill themselves when uninstalled.
As implemented, this feature was broken anyway as gdm doesn't always run on :0 so personally, I've had my X session killed when uninstalling gdm sometimes. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055359 Title: GDM package fails to uninstall if GDM not running Status in “gdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “gdm” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “gdm” source package in Quantal: Triaged Bug description: Currently the gdm package attempts to stop the gdm daemon when it is uninstalled. If this fails the package fails to uninstall. The daemon is not necessarily running when the package is uninstalled so this is a bug, also it is unsafe to stop the daemon as the sysadmin might not be expecting this. Fix is to not attempt to stop the dameon at all and leave that to the sysadmin to do before uninstalling the package. [Test Case] 1. sudo apt-get install gdm 2. sudo stop gdm 3. sudo apt-get remove gdm Expected result: gdm package successfully uninstalls Observed result: Package fails to uninstall. [Regression Potential] When uninstalling GDM the daemon will no longer be stopped. There is a risk of someone relying on this behaviour but it seems unlikely. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/1055359/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
