Bug#560968: gdm: seems to have incorrect startup dependencies and stops too early

[Josselin Mouette]

Le dimanche 13 décembre 2009 à 04:00 +0100, Bas Wijnen a écrit : 
> Since I upgraded to dependency-based boot, there are two problems:
> 
> - Sometimes the initial server startup fails.  Gdm then tries a second
>   time.  This does work, but the automatic login is not used, so I need
>   to manually log in in that case.  Because the new server successfully
>   starts, I can't find a log of the failure.

This is a recurring issue that can be summarized as “first login always
fails”. I’d appreciate if you could have a look at your logs (auth.log
and syslog) and see if anything goes wrong at login time.

> - When powering off using gnome, the X server is killed, then gdm
>   restarts it, and during this restart gdm is stopped.  Eventually the
>   system does shut down, but it seems to take much longer than it should
>   because of this.  Gdm should not try to restart X when the machine is
>   shutting down: it should be the first thing to be stopped, and that
>   should be the reason for X dying.  It seems that X is killed before
>   gdm is stopped.

This is probably fixed by GDM 2.28, but this one is still not in Debian
because of the huge number of regressions.

> I put those in one bug report because I think they are the same bug,
> namely an error in the boot dependencies.  If I'm wrong about that,
> please clone and rename as appropriate.

None of this is a dependency issue, these are two distinct bugs.

Cheers, 
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