Bug 4728

Summary:	drakedm cannot restart dm service when requested
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	You-Cheng Hsieh <yochenhsieh>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia, yvesbrungard
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	initscripts	CVE:
Status comment:

Description You-Cheng Hsieh 2012-02-28 05:40:30 CET

Description of problem:
Except kdm, drakedm cannot restart dm service when user want to switch to another dm(gdm, xdm, lxdm, slim).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
13.81

How reproducible:
Switch to different dm in drakedm.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start mcc.
2.Go to Boot -> Setup Display Manager
3.Switch to other dm except kdm
4.Drakedm will ask to restart dm service. Select OK.
5.the desired dm will fail to start and user can only use tty1~6.

Manuel Hiebel 2012-02-28 19:51:13 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaud
Severity: major => normal

Comment 1 papoteur 2012-03-25 21:55:00 CEST

Seen the same problem in commuting from lxdm to xdm.
Yves

CC: (none) => yves.brungard_mageia

Comment 2 Thierry Vignaud 2012-03-25 22:25:32 CEST

We're just doing a service restart.
So it's either a initscripts issue (it provides the dm service) or an issue in those dms

Source RPM: drakxtools => initscripts

Comment 3 You-Cheng Hsieh 2012-03-26 04:52:49 CEST

I cannot reproduce this bug anymore. It seems there're some initscripts updates regarding to dm services after this bug been reported. Now it works for me.

initscripts-9.34-10mga2

Comment 4 Sander Lepik 2012-03-26 09:34:08 CEST

Marking as fixed then, please reopen if needed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
CC: (none) => sander.lepik
Resolution: (none) => FIXED