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 . -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member
