Upstart and release notes

[Andrew Farris]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:17:46PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>> Bruno Wolff III (bruno at wolff.to) said: 
>>> Please include a warning in the release notes that if you have customized
>>> inittab, you might need to do something to have those customizations
>>> still apply after switching to upstart.
>> Yup, it's a known thing.
> 
> It looks like corresponding /etc/inittab lines are now replaced
> by scripts in /etc/event.d/. Only replacements are not always
> equivalent.  AFAICT an inittab line
> 
> x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> 
> shifted to
> 
> # prefdm - preferred display manager
> #
> # Starts gdm/xdm/etc by preference
> 
> start on stopped rc5
> 
> stop on runlevel [!5]
> 
> console output
> script
>         exec /etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon
> end script
> 
> With the former it was possible to do 'pkill -f gdm' to restart
> all gdm and X and I used that on uncounted occasions as various
> display elements are not the most robust pieces in systems - both
> hardware- and software-wise - to put it mildly.
> 
> After the change above killing a display manager means just that.
> The only reliable way to restart it appears to be
> 'telinit 3; telinit 5'; only this restarts much more.  Was that a
> deliberate change for really good reasons?  I already found it an
> annoying PITA although "telinit line" works in a script.

Something wrong with 'pkill -f gdm; gdm-restart'?  I haven't tried it, but 
gdm-stop and gdm-start work just fine (although -stop does not actually kill the 
  running X server, it just stops it from respawning again).


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