Bug#646180: gdm3 makes fvwm fail and cannot restart X

[Vincent Lefevre]

retitle 646180 gdm3 occasionally spawns X continuously when the previous X session terminates
found 646180 3.4.1-2
thanks

Actually this is here a locally rebuilt gdm3 with a patch against
gui/simple-greeter/gdm-clock-widget.c[*].

[*] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=15;filename=gdm-clock-widget.patch;att=1;bug=614982

On 2011-10-22 02:22:13 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> After upgrading gdm3, I logged out to log in again. But when starting fvwm
> via my .xsession file, my fvwm config file wasn't read (and no errors were
> shown in .xsession-errors -- this is where fvwm errors are usually written).

The cause of the problem with fvwm has been identified (bug 660981)
and it is not related to gdm3 at all. I was actually seeing here two
independent problems...

> I'm not sure whether gdm3 is the culprit here, but perhaps it provided an
> incorrect environment...
> 
> Then I quit fvwm, but X wasn't restarted. The Xorg.0.log file says at the
> end (at the same time fvwm terminated): "Server terminated successfully".

I had the same kind of problem in the last few months, and there were
lots of Xorg log files. It has just occurred again after I quit fvwm
(the machine had been rebooted a few minutes before, was put into sleep
and resumed in order to test bug #683768). I've attached an archive
containing all the Xorg log files and the corresponding syslog, until
I switched off the laptop.

Possibly a related bug: #681830

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