Comment 50 for bug 370541
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| Scramblejams (steve-newportit) wrote Re: [Bug 370541] Re: Jaunty's GDM Autologin doesn't work anymore | #50 |
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(Get the code!)
No.
That value just tells gdm how long to wait for X to start up before
deciding that X has hung, to kill it and try starting it again. So my
guess is that if the machine is slow:
1. X takes longer to start than GdmXserverTimeout allows, because other
background processes started during boot are getting themselves
initialized and keeping the system busy.
2. gdm kills X and tries to start it again.
3. By this time, most of the background processes have finished
initializing, so X starts up quickly enough this time to avoid getting
killed by gdm.
4. I'm guess that for some reason, gdm doesn't honor the autologin after
having killed X once.
If I get a little time I'll take a look in the gdm source to see if
that's a correct explanation...
Steve