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Bug 771548 - Gdm freezes after gnome wayland session crashed
Gdm freezes after gnome wayland session crashed
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.24.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: WaylandRelated
 
 
Reported: 2016-09-16 17:14 UTC by Christian Stadelmann
Modified: 2018-05-24 11:26 UTC
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Description Christian Stadelmann 2016-09-16 17:14:08 UTC 
Steps to reproduce (on Fedora 24 with Gnome 3.20.x)
1. log in into a gnome+wayland session
2. kill the session with SAK (Alt+SysRq+K), simulating a crash
3. watch what happens

What happens:
Whole UI freezes. I can't switch to tty1 any more or do anything else useful. Only way out is another SAK (Alt+SysRq+K).

Expected behavior:
The whole session dies and is disallocated so GDM should take back the screen.

Additional info:
This issue has been present for a while and was not introduced by a recent update. I just had not found a simple way to reproduce it until now.
Comment 1 Christian Stadelmann 2016-09-16 17:15:14 UTC 
Note that I sometimes run into this "GDM is frozen" situation after gnome-shell crashed due to wayland support still being under heavy development.
Comment 2 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 11:26:45 UTC 
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