I found out that this particular (mis)behaviour of grdesktop was not the fault of grdesktop itself, but a shellscript that I had created some time ago and then forgotten. In fact, the script was calling itself recursively and thus killing the machine within a few seconds. Really stupid thing...
So, please close this bug. Sorry & thanks Adalbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]