You have been subscribed to a public bug: On the first login of the week, xdm (1.1.11-3ubuntu2) fails to start on Ubuntu 20.04.
More correctly, it does start, but exits almost immediately on signal 12. It leaves /var/run/xdm.pid behind, and also a running X server with no clients. This makes it hard to restart, for one needs to kill the X server and remove the pid file first. The cause is logrotate running during startup and killing xdm before xdm installs a handler for SIGUSR2. The issue is more fully described upstream at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=948346 In passing I would comment that running logrotate so early during startup seems strange to me. Startup would surely be faster if these sort of "cron" jobs were left until it had finished? ** Affects: xdm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- xdm fails to start on Sundays https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1923472 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xdm in Ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
