On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 09:33:21AM -0300, Hernán Gustavo Solari wrote:
>   I am an old fan of fvwm (I started with the old twm decades ago).
>   I run fvwm2 without a desktop-manager. The xsession launched by
> lightdm on a Debian  5.10.84-1 system.
>
> Problem: an authentication module (sd-pam) is lauched at login for
> every user. It should be killed on exit. But it is not. It is very
> noticeable since at shutdown the machine spends 2 minutes trying to
> stop the job (it indicates systemd --user is waiting for a job to
> stop).

That sounds like a systemd problem.  You should investigate why
the module does not stop and ask the systemd folks for help.

> (I have a second debian system in another machine that is not showing
> the problem so far)
>
> The (sd-pam) job is not responding to the SIGTERM signal. But when it
> receives the SIGUP signal quits!!
>
> I added an exit option
> +  "KillAll and roughQuit" Exec /usr/bin/killall -s 1 -u ME
>
> Sending a SIGUP instead of SIGTERM is odd, but it works fine.

> What is the fvwm Quit function actually doing?

That depends on the actual function.  How does it look like?

> Does it send a SIGTERM to every job as I imagine?

Fvwm doesn't have a built in "quit" function.  If there is one,
it's either in your private config or came with the desktop
environment or some other setup.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^  ^_^

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Dominik Vogt

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