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

[Adrian Immanuel Kieß]

Dear Andreas,

yes the screen does indeed turn off for a while while GDM is loading
when I dont't exit plymouth.

Maybe should I purge GDM3 and try over again? I have no clue why GDM
does only works so sluggish for me.

As noted in my last mail, with XDM, KDM and lightdm I can't even start
my xinitrc session, since they refuse to exec enlightenment_start.

I really have no clue where this all comes from, this is why I am asking
on the bugreport list. :-)

To note, my installation is a Debian 5 installation, upgraded to
Debian/testing and running on so far.

I already reported other sometimes strange bugs happening for me, for
example gkrellm seqfaulting when I type an umlaut; I use xmodmap by the
way.

Maybe you have an idea how to make GDM run smoothly again.

Thank you very much,

Adrian


On Wed, 2014-01-22 at 03:03 +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote: 
> 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

-- 
With greetings from Leipzig, Germany.
Adrian Immanuel Kieß 

Administrator & programmer
Unix / Perl / LaTeX

mail: <adrian (at) kiess.at>
www: http://www.kiess.at
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