Debian bug report logs - #1480, boring messages

Subject: Bug#1480: start-stop-daemon doesn't check process status
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Package: dpkg
Version: 0.93.77

start-stop-daemon doesn't check process status.  For example, you can
terminate xdm by entering a ^R in for your login dialog.  However,
later executions of start-stop-daemon fail to start xdm because
xdm "is already running".

In this particular case, I wish to defer starting xdm until some time
after boot (so I created an "xdm" user which runs a /usr/local/bin/xdm
script as root).  I was also hoping to make it a bit more convenient to
restart xdm after having hit ^R.  Since this is a passwordless "login"
I need the sanity checks imposed by start-stop-daemon.  I just wish
it were a bit more seamless.

--
Raul

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Subject: Bug#1480: Acknowledgement (was: start-stop-daemon doesn't check process status)
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reassign 1480 dpkg