Bug#553362: gdm: lenny->sid upgrade weirdness

[Josselin Mouette]

reassign 553362 libc6
thanks

Le vendredi 30 octobre 2009 à 11:21 -0400, Michael Gilbert a écrit : 
> i recently upgraded a machine from lenny to sid.  in the process, it
> was stated that some services needed restarted (i think in order to
> upgrade libc), which including gdm. i figured i might as well do it.
> 
> however, in the process gdm came up with a dialog that said it could
> not restart because an x server was already running on :0.  the two
> options were "yes", which tried to launch a new x server over and over
> again and eventually failed; and "no", which tried to launch on :0
> again, but failed. both options flash the screen a bunch and are
> not very professional looking.
> 
> is there any better way that this could be done?  is a gdm restart
> really needed?  would it be ok to use the present gdm and wait for the
> user to reboot (or at least log out) to launch the new version?

Indeed, it is not necessary to restart gdm. A reload should be enough
and it will avoid killing the current session.

Dear libc maintainers: please see how libpam0g.postinst does. There is
an exception for gdm, for which a reload action is invoked instead of a
full restart.

Thanks, 
-- 
 .''`.      Josselin Mouette
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