Bug#674501: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome: gdm3 spawns tens of slaves and X servers after upgrade to 0.2.904+svn1050-1+b1
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 23:38:06 -0400, Fred Korz wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-openchrome
> Version: 1:0.2.904+svn1050-1+b1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> [* What led up to the situation?]
>
> Been running "testing" for 8 years now. Currently that's wheezy. Do
> dist-upgrade daily and reboot & backup weekly.
>
> Reboot on 2012.05.20 after dist-upgrade failed to bring up network and display.
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
>
> Rebooted single user, manually configured network to get debugging
> access off of console. (New startup sequences, network configured by
> network manager and that isn't started until it has a screen to start
> on. So if gdm3 doesn't come up, you loose your network path onto the
> system, e.g. sshd. *boo*) Worked around that by reinstalling the old
> ifupdown package, which had been autoremoved but config data left in
> place.
>
> With ssh access, investigated server and found 40 to 80
> /usr/lib/gdm3/gdm-simple-slave processes, all children of one
> /usr/sbin/gdm3, and each slave had started a /usr/bin/Xorg instance.
>
What's in the gdm log?
Cheers,
Julien
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