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dpkg package

  1. Bug #47320
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 47320

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote : Re: /etc/init.d/gdm stop falsely reports gdm stopped

> that might be something to change to the lsb-base package

Yes, it's a problem with the arguments given to the start-stop-daemon. IIRC, leaving out the --exec argument makes --stop work.

This is still a problem in Feisty, after running "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop", the two gdm processes keep running.