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gdm package

  1. Bug #441638
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 441638

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 441638] Re: gdm main process keeps dying and respawning on reboot after karmic beta install

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 06:55:43PM -0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Ideally, gdm should fire up the failsafe stuff after failing. If that
> can't be done, then at least it should dump out to the console login,
> rather than getting stuck in a loop.

If it's possible to have gdm exit with a particular exit code when it's
failed to start X, then see /etc/init/mountall-reboot.conf for an example of
how to use this to only start the failsafe job on this exit code.

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