Spawns a new server and greeter instead of (during?) rebooting

[Matt Zimmerman]

Binary package hint: gdm

I just tried to reboot my Gutsy system, using the quit button on the default panel. My session was closed, but then, after a brief display of an empty usplash progress bar, I was left at the gdm login prompt. I selected Options/Reboot to try again, and this time was met with another login prompt with a different theme (blue background, yellow flower). Several seconds later, my display went blank, though the system didn't reboot.

I suspect that it was shutting down all along, though I couldn't see usplash or console messages due to the X server being displayed, and that the system would have rebooted at that point except for a kernel bug which caused it to hang at the very end (which happily seems to be fixed in the new kernel I was rebooting to test).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. Did it happen only once or can you trigger it with some steps? If it happens regularly could you activate the debug option in gdmsetup and look if there is anything about the bug in /var/log/syslog next time it happens?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Closing this bug since no more information has been provided, feel free to re open it if you can send us the information Sebastien asked for. thanks!

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

I think this is actually a duplicate of bug 126797, where I have commented further.

It's interesting, though, that in this case, I was seeing a different theme. Perhaps that provides a clue?

[Oliver Grawert (ogra)]

fully agreed, its the same issue but this one has surely the better description :)