econti writes:
> Hi all
> to-day I successfully updated Xorg (from 6.x to 7.x).
> A little trouble only; on boot I receive the following error message:
>
> Setting up kdm . . .
> start-stop-daemon: option `--exec' requires an argument
> Try `start-stop-daemon --help' for more information
> *ERROR: could not start the Display Manager
>
> Well, I tried `start-stop-daemon --help' but I did not understand much.
> So I ran 'kdm' from command line and . . . KDE works!
>
> How can I make kdm start on boot again?
Does this give anyy output? It should give /usr/kde/3.5/bin/kdm.
. /lib/rcscripts/sh/rc-services.sh
get_options service xdm
In /etc/X11/startDM.sh, in line 22, this is being used to determine what to
start with `start-stop-daemon --exec ${EXEC} a few lines later:
EXEC="$(get_options service)"
I think you get empty output, so EXEC is empty, and start-stop-daemon
complains about a missing argument.
get_options reads the file /var/lib/init.d/options/xdm/service, if existing.
It should be created by the correspnding save_options routine
in /etc/init.d/xdm. Maybe you could add a
set -xv
before the
save_options "service" "${EXE}"
line in order to get useful debug output. After a quick look, I do not see
what the problem could be there.
Alex
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