I can reproduce the problem on a clean boot, restarting from the greeter without logging in. I see identical symptoms, with complete reproduceability, on my desktop (nvidia) and my laptop (ati). I do not think it is hardware-related.
I set gdm's reboot command to /bin/true to be able to examine the situation a bit. When it gets into this state, the original gdm parent process is still running, though /var/run/gdm.pit and gdm_socket are both gone. I've attached gdm's log output from daemon.log. ** Attachment added: "daemon.log excerpt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8889955/gdm.log ** Summary changed: - gdm shows the default gnome theme for a second on shutdown + gdm spawns a new X server when told to restart the system -- gdm spawns a new X server when told to restart the system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126797 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
