Hi, Richmond wrote: > Nov 07 19:38:37 systemd[1]: xdm.service: Main process exited, > code=killed, status=12/USR2 Nov 07 19:38:37 systemd[1]: xdm.service: > Failed with result 'signal'.
Googling "xdm USR2" brings me to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=948346 which shows the same message. The bug seems to be still open and tagged with "help": https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags "help The maintainer is requesting help with dealing with this bug. Either the maintainer does not have the skills necessary to fix this bug and desires collaboration, or is overloaded and wants to delegate this task. [...]" I understand that logrotate sends signal USR2 to xdm to tell it that it shall close and reopen the log file, because the old one was renamed and a new current log file was created. Introduced possibly because of https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285871 It would be interesting to learn whether after such a start failure on your machine the file /var/log/xdm.log shows indications that it was created newly. Have a nice day :) Thomas
