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gdm package

  1. Bug #34859
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 34859

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Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote : Re: gdm does not restart after Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

This just happened again: gdm exitted but did not restart after I pressed Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

There was nothing in /var/log/messages and syslog (except for a translated message saying that gconfd exitted because it wasn't used).

Two gdm processes were still running (parent and child). I tried strace on both, briefly -- the child was trying to read from a pipe (fd 7), while the parent was blocked in poll().

/etc/init.d/gdm restart fixed things.