Bug#769369: Workaround found

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Jun 02 2017, Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
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> Hi Nikolaus
>
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 15:00:01 -0800 Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus at rath.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I have found that adding
>> 
>> ExecStop=/bin/chvt 1
>> ExecStop=/sbin/start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile
>> /var/run/lightdm.pid --name lightdm --retry 5
>> 
>> to the [Service] section in /etc/systemd/system/lightdm.service fixes
>> the problem. Shutdown and reboot work properly.
>
> Sorry for not coming back to you earlier.
>
> Is this problem still reproducible on an up-to-date jessie or stretch
> system?

I just removed the workaround on my stretch system, and it still reboots
and powers off correctly. So hopefully it has been fixed (I am not sure,
because the workaround looks a lot like it's avoiding a race condition
somewhere).


Best,
-Nikolaus

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