Bug 47486

Summary:	gdm needs an /etc/init.d/gdm file
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Telsa Gwynne <hobbit>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	7.3	CC:	notting
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Description Telsa Gwynne 2001-07-05 18:34:34 UTC

I don't normally use gdm.

But it started up after something went wrong with X setup in a text mode
install of fairfax on a laptop. I had said I didn't want X to start on
boot but it did. (already bugzilla'd.)

I wanted to get rid of it. And I can't see how to stop it short of rpm -e
or telinit 3. I expected an /etc/init.d/gdm file I could start, restart
and stop. I can't figure out how to stop it starting every time I reboot
other than removing the entire package now. Which means I can't test it
properly then :)

I don't think this is an 'enhancement'. I think it's more severe than
that. If X or gdm is broken, I have no way to stop gdm: tksysv doesn't
know about it, for example. Well, short of rpm -e which is not always
what I want.

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2001-07-05 19:31:31 UTC

Agree this would be nice, nontrivial though. I'll think about how to do it and
also try to convince George to do it for me. ;-)

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-07-06 03:54:33 UTC

telinit 3 is the normal way to kill a <foo>dm gone bad.

Comment 3 Havoc Pennington 2001-07-06 04:30:39 UTC

right but is there a reason why most services have scripts so you can add/remove
them from runlevels but gdm doesn't?

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2001-07-10 20:13:12 UTC

Because the display manager is implicitly tied to runlevel 5. Also, it wouldn't
respawn right if it was an init service (and there's a race for which console
it starts on if you do it that way.)

Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2001-07-12 19:48:22 UTC

If Bill says it won't work then I believe him, I don't know too much about these
things.