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  1. Bug #47320
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 47320

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

Verified on Feisty that removing --exec makes it work. Additionally, the --oknodo argument to start-stop-daemon makes the script return success even if it did not kill gdm.

I guess start-stop-daemon should just ignore the --exec argument when --stop is present? At least not just ignore everything and quit.

OTOH if this is expected behavior from start-stop-daemon, many init scripts must be fixed.