Bug 112707

Summary:	race between earlykdm and xdm init scripts
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	coolo, werner
Version:	Beta 2
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Takashi Iwai 2005-08-24 13:41:39 UTC

earlykdm and xdm init scripts can be racy.

It might be harmless in practice, but better to use a lock file (e.g.
/var/lock/subsys/xdm) ?

As another optimization, we can extend startpar to skip the service which has
the certain lock in /var/lock/subsys...

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-24 13:47:19 UTC

Do you have ever seen such a race?

Comment 2 Takashi Iwai 2005-08-24 13:52:58 UTC

Yes, I saw yesterday the line "starting kdm" twice during boot.  No real problem
happend, though.

The booted services are fairly optimized by myself, so this should happen very
unlikely per default installation, I guess.

Comment 3 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-08-24 13:56:54 UTC

A simple solution would be to add earlykdm to
Should-Start line of the /etc/init.d/xdm.

Comment 4 Stephan Kulow 2005-08-24 14:51:43 UTC

It would still say "starting kdm" twice during boot.

Comment 5 Stephan Kulow 2005-09-06 07:29:21 UTC

it's fixed good enough now