Bug#728180: gdm3: service gdm3 stop leaves lots of processes running, preventing restart or start of other dm

[Julian Gilbey]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 01:34:38PM +0100, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 29. Oktober 2013, 12:21:28 schrieb Simon McVittie:
> > On 29/10/13 08:23, Johannes Rohr wrote:
> > > Package: gdm3
> > > Version: 3.8.4-3
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > After running service gdm3 stop I still see a host of related processes
> > > running
> > Is your process 1 systemd, or sysvinit, or something else?
> 
> /sbin/init is a symlink to /lib/systemd/systemd
>  But I think that it was no different, when I had sysvinit runnig.

I'm observing the same behaviour and my /sbin/init is from
sysvinit-core.  I cannot figure out how to restart gdm3 at all: even
when I kill all of those processes, invoke-rc.d gdm3 start just gives
me a cursor and no login screen.

   Julian