Bug#735628: gdm3: Does not restart system when clicking {Restart}

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Adrian,

On 22.01.2014 01:24, Adrian Immanuel Kieß wrote:
> the missing part is then:
>
> Starting Enable support for additional executable binary formats...
> 76          Starting LSB: Start acpi_fakekey daemon...
> 77          Starting LSB: Bluetooth monitoring daemon...
> 78          Starting LSB: OpenBSD Secure Shell server...
> 79          Starting LSB: Fetch LDAP SSL public key from the server...
> 80          Starting Initialize hardware monitoring sensors...
> 81          Starting /etc/rc.local Compatibility...
> 82          Starting System Logging Service...
> 83          Starting Permit User Sessions...
> 84 [^[[32m  OK  ^[[0m] Listening on Virtual machine lock manager socket.
> 85 [^[[32m  OK  ^[[0m] Listening on Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack Activation
> Socket.
> 86 [^[[32m  OK  ^[[0m] Listening on GPS (Global Positioning System)
> Daemon Sockets.
> 87 [^[[32m  OK  ^[[0m] Listening on PC/SC Smart Card Daemon Activation
> Socket.
> 88 [^[[32m  OK  ^[[0m] Listening on ACPID Listen Socket.
> 89 [^[[32m  OK  ^[[0m] Listening on D-Bus System Message Bus Socket.
> 90          Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack...
> 91          Starting Login Service...
> 92          Starting Accounts Service...
> 93          Starting D-Bus System Message Bus...
> 94 [^[[32m  OK  ^[[0m] Started D-Bus System Message Bus.
> 95          Starting LSB: network connection manager...
> 96          Starting LSB: Light Display Manager...
> 97          Starting Virtualization daemon...
>
> (taken from /var/log/boot.log)

Strange, I can see (using plymouth exited with <Esc>) lines like:
Starting Initialize hardware monitoring sensors...
or
Starting LSB: network connection manager...

 > I'd like to note when I boot with plymouth and I am not exiting
> plymouth with [Home] then even the screen suspends and wents off while
> GDM is starting up.

For me the screen goes black (but still is on) for a moment just before 
GDM comes up. Does it really turn off for you?

> I have a lot of problems with the window display managers in
> Debian/testing lateley. With XDM I can't even login with any user and
> all the other display managers won't execute enlightenment_start and
> refuse to open a E17 session.

:(

> I did reboot but GDM won't show the banner or the background image set
> in greeter.gsettings.

I don't understand this. The banner works for me.

Best regards,
Andreas