[upstream bug] lightdm service start/stop broken in UP5

[Monsta]

Just informing lightdm users so they won't be as scared as I was today

With the update of sysvinit you can't manually start/stop lightdm by typing

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service lightdm start

or

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service lightdm stop

- you'll have to type

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/etc/init.d/lightdm start

or

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/etc/init.d/lightdm stop

The same goes for all the other possible service arguments (e.g. status).

This is an upstream bug (see 636054, 649454, 675533) - trying to use upstart commands when init isn't upstart. It has been fixed in the next sysvinit release (2.88dsf-23), but this package hasn't been updated in Testing until 2.88dsf-31 (see the news section here). Waiting for UP6.

Now what does that mean for sgfxi users?
1. If your DM is lightdm, sgfxi isn't able to stop it automatically anymore. Stop it manually (/etc/init.d/lightdm stop) before running sgfxi.
2. Of course sgfxi isn't able to start it (after the driver is installed) as well. Same here - just start it manually.