On 11/1/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Yet another weirdness on my desktops (xorg-7.3, gnome-2.20.latest
> and specifically xorg-server-1.4.0 and gdm-2.20.1).  Once I've got gdm
> built, I switch my default runlevel to 5.  Normally, it "just works",
> but on current builds I'm seeing a rather weird shutdown process:
>
> log out, X restarts and gdm appears
> from gdm, select the option to shut down and confirm it.
>
>  What used to happen was a switch back to tty1 with the console
> messages as X was killed and everything shut down.
>
>  What happens now is:
> 1. gdm calls 'shutdown -h now', causing the rc bootscript to be called
> for runlevel 0.
> 2. The Knn scripts run - in my case, starting with cups
> 3. X restarts (in my opinion, this is not the expected behaviour).
>  (in the log, the kernel agp messages appear)

That's not supposed to happen. Do you see anything interesting at the
end of Xorg.0.log or Xorg.0.log.old?

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>  I'm way out of my depth in trying to understand how modular X fits
> together, but does it seem likely that this is a bug, or a
> deliberate change, in xorg-server or am I looking at the wrong
> package ?  Anybody else seeing anything similar ?  Is it in fact a
> change in gdm ?

I'm using gdm-2.18, but I don't think gdm has changed that behavior in
a while. The real question is why Xorg is restarting and not just
shutting down. One thing to note is that xorg-server-1.4.0 has quite a
few bugs that are supposed to be fixed in 1.4.1 in a couple weeks.
Don't know if that's the issue.

I'd check the logs in /var/log/Xorg.0* and /var/log/gdm/:0.log* for strangeness.

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Dan
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