It appears with the new gdm, it no longer triggers FailsafeServer after N failed tries. Instead, gdm simply exits after 5 tries. Unfortunately, at that point upstart notices gdm exited and restarts it.
This is fairly easy to reproduce by doing 'echo "foo" >> /etc/X11/xorg.conf' and rebooting. ** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu Karmic) Assignee: (unassigned) => Sebastien Bacher (seb128) -- gdm main process keeps dying and respawning on reboot after karmic beta install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/441638 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gdm in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs