gdm amd64 behaviour on shutdown different from that on i386
Hi everybody
From the gdm login screen, if I use the "actions" menu to shutdown the
system, what happens differs on my amd64 desktop from my i386 netbook.
Specifically, on the i386 netbook, the screen switches to tty1 and the
shutdown messages are displayed. On the amd64 desktop, the screen goes
black, nothing more is displayed, and the monitor indicates that output
is no longer being received from the computer.
I am running Debian testing on both systems and just finished upgrading
to linux-image-2.6.39-2-amd64 version 2.6.39-3 on the desktop, and the
gdm version is 2.20.11-4.
I believe the above behaviour is a bug. It doesn't happen when using
"reboot" from the "actions" menu, ie when rebooting, the screen switches
to tty1 and the shutdown messages do indeed appear.
As far as I can determine, this behaviour started sometime in late April
or early-to-mid May. Since gdm version 2.20.11-4 was installed last
December, the problem does not appear to be with that package. Nor does
it appear to be kernel-related, since the same thing happens with both
my 2.6.38 and 2.6.32 kernels, which I still have installed.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is causing this behaviour?
Jack Warkentin, phone 902-404-0457, email jwark@bellaliant.net
39 Inverness Avenue, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3P 1X6
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