detaching lightdm into background

[Jon Boden]

Hi

When starting /etc/init.d/lightdm (either directly from root console or through SysV init), it will get stuck because lightdm doesn't fork into background when starting.

Please could you add --background option to start-stop-daemon to fix this? (note: the debian lightdm package already does this)

This change is needed for ubuntuBSD (which uses SysV init to manage system daemons).

Thank you!

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Debian does it differently - is there any advantage over each method?

I'm wondering if we should just copy the Debian init script entirely, given the Ubuntu version seems very out of date.

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Also, a merge proposal is easier to handle than a diff.

[Jon Boden (jon-8)]

Hi

Should work fine. -b is the same as --background

Thanks!

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Ah, I missed the -b. Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for lightdm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Jon Boden (jon-8)]

Hi

Is this bug fixed? Do you need other information / patch?

Thanks!

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 04:17:42AM -0000, Launchpad Bug Tracker wrote:
> [Expired for lightdm (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
> days.]
>
> ** Changed in: lightdm (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Expired
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> Title:
> detaching lightdm into background
>
> Status in lightdm package in Ubuntu:
> Expired
>
> Bug description:
> Hi
>
> When starting /etc/init.d/lightdm (either directly from root console
> or through SysV init), it will get stuck because lightdm doesn't fork
> into background when starting.
>
> Please could you add --background option to start-stop-daemon to fix
> this? (note: the debian lightdm package already does this)
>
> This change is needed for ubuntuBSD (which uses SysV init to manage
> system daemons).
>
> Thank you!
>
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