Re: no gdm after logout?
Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> Are there other folks on the list who have experienced the problem of gdm
> not relaunching after logging out of a gnome session? This has been a
> persistant problem for me for a long time (at least since i was running
> LinuxPPC R5).
>
> gdm had actually been behaving fine for me recently, until I updated to
> the 4.0.3 XFree86 that is currently in debian testing, at which point it
> went back to its old tricks.
I think I used to have that problem with the gdm in testing. The one in sid
works fine and is much nicer in general.
> Essentially, the xserver seems to restart, but gdm doesn't leaving me
> staring at the grey patterned X server default screen, with nothing
> running. If I switch to a console, I can drop to single user mode and
> then back to my usual run level to get gdm to come back, but it is a pain
> in the neck.
No need to at any rate, just /etc/init.d/gdm restart .
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
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