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

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi Adrian,

On 22.01.2014 14:40, Adrian Immanuel Kieß wrote:
> yes the screen does indeed turn off for a while while GDM is loading
> when I dont't exit plymouth.

Strange.

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

This may help - at least I think this can't make things worse...

> 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 just installed lightdm and e17 and started e17 from lightdm. This 
worked for me (although e17 segfaulted shortly after that).

> 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.

If you have free hard disk space, I would recommend you to create a 
fresh jessie installation and see, whether these problems happen there 
as well.
If yes, you know how to reproduce the problem in a fresh installation, 
which might help solving it.
If no, you should think about migrating to the fresh installation.

Best regards,
Andreas