This just happened again: gdm exitted but did not restart after I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
There was nothing in /var/log/messages and syslog (except for a translated message saying that gconfd exitted because it wasn't used). Two gdm processes were still running (parent and child). I tried strace on both, briefly -- the child was trying to read from a pipe (fd 7), while the parent was blocked in poll(). /etc/init.d/gdm restart fixed things. -- gdm does not restart after Ctrl+Alt+Backspace https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34859 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
