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gdm package

  1. Bug #441638
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 441638

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: gdm main process keeps dying and respawning on reboot after karmic beta install

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.