http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081 Mark Gray changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |markgray+to-suse@puck.nac.n | |et AssignedTo|bnc-team-xorg-bugs@forge.pr |xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge. |ovo.novell.com |provo.novell.com -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081#c1 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium Status|ASSIGNED |NEEDINFO CC| |sndirsch@novell.com Info Provider| |frankebay99@gmail.com AssignedTo|xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge. |bnc-team-xorg-bugs@forge.pr |provo.novell.com |ovo.novell.com --- Comment #1 from Stefan Dirsch 2009-06-24 10:35:21 MDT --- Do any of these files exist? /var/run/kdm.pid /opt/kde3/bin/kdm /usr/bin/kdm What's the output of the following commands? /sbin/checkproc -p /var/run/kdm.pid /opt/kde3/bin/kdm; echo $? /sbin/checkproc -p /var/run/kdm.pid /usr/bin/kdm; echo $? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081 User frankebay99@gmail.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081#c2 Francis Lamonde changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |ASSIGNED Info Provider|frankebay99@gmail.com | --- Comment #2 from Francis Lamonde 2009-06-24 10:58:30 MDT --- M2 is installed on a second HD. So I have mounted root partition of M2 while I am in 10.3 on HD1 and have run the following: Files exist: /var/run/kdm.pid YES /opt/kde3/bin/kdm NO /usr/bin/kdm YES Running: /sbin/checkproc -p /var/run/kdm.pid /opt/kde3/bin/kdm; echo $? Returns: checkproc: cannot stat /opt/kde3/bin/kdm: No such file or directory $ Running: /sbin/checkproc -p /var/run/kdm.pid /usr/bin/kdm; echo $? Returns: $ -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081 User frankebay99@gmail.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081#c4 --- Comment #4 from Francis Lamonde 2009-06-24 11:29:27 MDT --- Created an attachment (id=300150) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=300150) does not return a number -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081#c6 --- Comment #6 from Stefan Dirsch 2009-06-24 16:37:28 MDT --- You know that there is a difference between the string "$" and "$?" ??? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081 User sndirsch@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=516081#c8 Stefan Dirsch changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE --- Comment #8 from Stefan Dirsch 2009-06-24 17:15:08 MDT ---

/sbin/checkproc -p /var/run/kdm.pid /usr/bin/kdm; echo $?" = 1

# man checkproc [...] EXIT CODES The exit codes without the option -k have the following LSB conform conditions: 0 Program is running 1 No process but pid file found So kdm is no longer running at this time, i.e. /etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup assumes kdm/gdm is not in use, thus starting xconsole. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 508525 *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508525 -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.