Bug#558907: invoke-rc.d gdm start; # spawns multiple instances.

[Mike Mestnik]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.7-4lenny1
Severity: normal

IMHO all daemon should fail to start if they are already running.  In
this case gdm fails badly if more them one is running at a time.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
 APT prefers stable
 APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (800, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii  adduser                3.110             add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.24            Debian configuration management sy
ii  gksu                   2.0.0-8           graphical frontend to su
ii  gnome-session [x-sessi 2.22.3-2          The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii  gnome-terminal [x-term 2.22.3-3          The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libattr1               1:2.4.43-2        Extended attribute shared library
ii  libc6                  2.10.1-3          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-7           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-5+lenny1    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.82-2            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdmx1                1:1.0.2-3         X11 Distributed Multihead extensio
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2+lenny1    FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.22.2-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.18.3-1          The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii  libpam-modules         1.0.1-5+lenny1    Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii  libpam-runtime         1.0.1-5+lenny1    Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g               1.0.1-5+lenny1    Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-5          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  librsvg2-2             2.26.0-1          SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  librsvg2-common        2.26.0-1          SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libselinux1            2.0.65-5          SELinux shared libraries
ii  libwrap0               7.6.q-16          Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                1:1.0.3-3         X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6              1:1.0.2-3         X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.4-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                2.7.6.dfsg-1      GNOME XML library
ii  lsb-base               3.2-20            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  lxsession-lite [x-sess 0.3.6-2           a lightweight X11 session manager
ii  lxterminal [x-terminal 0.1.3-2           desktop independent vte-based term
ii  metacity [x-window-man 1:2.22.0-2        A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii  openbox [x-window-mana 3.4.7.2-3         standards compliant, fast, light-w
ii  sawfish [x-window-mana 1:1.3.3-1         a window manager for X11
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii  dialog                1.1-20080316-1     Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  gdm-themes            <none>             (no description available)
ii  whiptail              0.52.2-11.3+lenny1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
pn  xserver-xephyr | xnes <none>             (no description available)
ii  xserver-xorg          1:7.3+20           the X.Org X server
ii  zenity                2.22.1-2           Display graphical dialog boxes fro

Versions of packages gdm suggests:
pn  libpam-gnome-keyring          <none>     (no description available)
ii  locales                       2.10.1-3   GNU C Library: National Language (
ii  pm-utils                      1.1.2.4-1  utilities and scripts for power ma

-- debconf information:
 gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm