GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 590965
gdm respawns on shutdown/restart from the menu
Last modified: 2013-12-16 19:57:43 UTC
Please describe the problem: gdm respawns on shutdown/restart from the menu before being eventually automatically killed by the shutdown process note i cant get this bug is usplash is disabled seems something is happening with tty order as well - on boot, system messages are on tty1, X on tty7 as normal - on shutdown, system messages now appear on tty7 with gdm respawning on tty1 Steps to reproduce: 1. - boot to desktop with usplash enabled 2. - select shutdown or restart from desktop menu 3. - gdm respawns before being killed by the shutdown process Actual results: shutdown process begins, gdm closes(tty7). then it respawns on tty1 with system messages appearing on tty7 instead of tty1 as usual. the shutdown process then continues killing gdm Expected results: shutdown process begins, gdm closes, usplash appears on tty7 and comp[uter eventually shuts down Does this happen every time? yes Other information: This is on ubuntu karmic up to date gdm/karmic uptodate 2.27.4-0ubuntu6 launchpad bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/406962
I can confirm that this problem also happens on OpenSolaris. When this happens, it also seems that core files from various processes (e.g. metacity run by GDM) are left behind (perhaps because GDM is trying to launch such programs as needed services are being shut down). I agree that GDM should inhibit restarting any display management when the system is in the process of shutting down.
i think this probably got fixed when we redid the shutdown paths in the slave, if not, please reopen.