error stopping gdm

[blaksaga]

When I logout->shutdown in gnome it kicks me out to the gnome graphical login. From there I have to hit system->shutdown and then it still gives and "error stopping gdm" message. Its nothing major just an annoyance...anybody know what's wrong???

[Mactabilis]

When I logout->shutdown in gnome it kicks me out to the gnome graphical login. From there I have to hit system->shutdown and then it still gives and "error stopping gdm" message. Its nothing major just an annoyance...anybody know what's wrong???

I also get the same error message. I am pretty sure its because gdm has already closed when the init script goes to stop it. You could test this by going to a virtual console (ctrl+alt+f1 etc..) logging in then shutting down the computer manually.

Edit:
Without doing any testing I would say changing line 101 in /etc/init.d/xdm

(from the stop method)

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 94          if [ "$(ps -A | grep -e "${myservice}")" ]
    95          then
    96                  start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet \
    97                          --exe ${myexe} &>/dev/null
    98
    99                  retval=$?
   100          else
   101                  retval=1
   102          fi

to

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   101                  retval=0

should fix the problem

[krissly1]

I have 2 questions for this post. Did the change in line 101 work? I use nano to do my editing. How do you get the line number to display as in your example? Thanks

[AmosMutke]

I have 2 questions for this post. Did the change in line 101 work? I use nano to do my editing. How do you get the line number to display as in your example? Thanks

Ctrl-C will display the current line number...

even easier yet, if you want to open a file with nano and go directly to a particular line then try this

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nano -n 101 myfile.txt

that will open up myfile.txt and start you on line 101

[krissly1]

Thanks, the change in line 101 got rid of the "error stopping gdm" and thanks for the tip on editing particular lines.

[StinkingMonkey]

Ah great, thanks for that, been annoying me for ages.

[AmosMutke]

I was having the same gdm issue, but I rarely have to shutdown gdm so I just ignored it.. thx for the fix.

[eug2k]

I have 2 questions for this post. Did the change in line 101 work? I use nano to do my editing. How do you get the line number to display as in your example? Thanks

Ctrl-C will display the current line number...

even easier yet, if you want to open a file with nano and go directly to a particular line then try this

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nano -n 101 myfile.txt

that will open up myfile.txt and start you on line 101

nano -n doesn't work for me, if I do nano --help I don't even see that switch in the list

[lamekain]

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101                  retval=0

won't that just stop all the return values? in other words, the problem is still there; the error-message just isn't printed

Shouldn't there be a clever way to stop the shutdown from trying to kill gdm (as it is not running):?:

[kallamej]

Moved from Desktop Environments in favour of http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=25772