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John Manko posted <43133F1A.5010503@×××××××××.com>, excerpted below, on |
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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 13:00:10 -0400: |
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> I hope this is not a stupid question, but who/what is generating the sig 9? |
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It's /not/ a stupid question, and it has me a bit baffled as well, thus my |
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failure to adequately answer it. =8^P |
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The way the error makes it look, the script (controlling process) is |
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generating the sig-9 to kdm, causing it to shut down, after it logs a |
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message, but that makes no sense because if it got a sig-9, it wouldn't be |
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/able/ to log a message before it was killed. |
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Thus, my suggestion to trace the script, with the hope that the processes |
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involved and their relationship to each other would become clearer, |
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hopefully such that the error made a bit more sense. |
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The other possibility I can think of, and again, I don't know enough about |
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the process without tracing it for this to come out as more than jumbled |
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thoughts, is that the X-server isn't responding to the X-client's (that |
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would be KDM's) requests to establish a session, so KDM is having to send |
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it a sig-9 in its attempts to clean up the only partially init-ed X that |
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it couldn't connect to. |
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Thus, what I guess I'm saying is that we know there are at least 4, |
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possibly more, processes involved. Init itself is forking the |
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init-script, which forks X and KDM, each of which likely have their own |
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subscripts that do some setup before actually calling the X server and KDM |
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executables. How they relate to each other, which one is sending which a |
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sig-9, how many other processes may be involved in the setup, etc.... |
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that's the sort of info that one would normally find out by tracing the |
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script to figure out what it's doing and where the problem is. |
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I'm answering not because I really know anything about what's going on, |
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but because no one else has, and in the hope that my bumbling attempts at |
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help may at least point you in the right direction... It'd certainly be |
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better if someone who knows kdm could step in, but in the absence of that, |
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I'm helping the best I can... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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