Le samedi 09 avril 2011 à 14:22 +0200, Cyril Brulebois a écrit : > > However the X server does not properly clean up its state > > immediately, leading to a race condition. If the startup is very > > fast (which is usual for Xfce users or SSD owners), the new settings > > daemon receives wrong information from the X server that a settings > > daemon is still running, while actually it is not. > > since you kind of know what's happening, I'd appreciate if you could > open a bug upstream directly: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ product=xorg, component=Server/general I have received more explanations from Ryan Lortie, and it might not be as simple as “a bug in the X server”; although the problem probably lies in the interaction between the Xsettings manager and the X server, it might not be possible to actually fix it on the X side (which would mean the Xsettings specification has a design flaw). IMHO more testing is required before involving X people. You might want to reassign this to gdm3 in the meantime, since although this is not a bug in gdm3, it is the package that exhibits it. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “If you behave this way because you are blackmailed by someone, `- […] I will see what I can do for you.” -- Jörg Schilling
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