Bug 12901 – xdm fails to shutdown on reboot if you reboot from within gdm

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jared H. Hudson (RETIRED) 2002-12-29 04:43:53 UTC]

If you reboot your computer from the GDM screen (after logging out) gdm stops,
and the computer starts rebooting and shutting down services. Since gdm has
already closed itself, the xdm service (listing itself as gdm) will not shut
down properly.

[Comment 1 Spider (RETIRED) 2002-12-31 09:13:52 UTC]

known problem with an unknown solution. the gdm/xdm scripts was changed to allow
the shutdown to work at all (since the gdm spawned an off process that detected
the rc-script shutoff to reset it...)  

[Comment 2 foser (RETIRED) 2003-01-13 09:27:17 UTC]

we should fix this sometime

[Comment 3 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:22:27 UTC]

db fix

[Comment 4 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 01:27:20 UTC]

db fix

[Comment 5 gad.kadosh 2005-01-11 14:21:46 UTC]

any chance to fix this bug?

[Comment 6 carlitos 2005-03-03 20:47:11 UTC]

Created attachment 52616 [details]
Fix for xdm shutdown or reboot error

This script fix the xdm shutdown or reboot error copy this file to
/etc/runlevels/default/ and replace the other one there :)

[Comment 7 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2005-03-31 08:40:47 UTC]

This still happens. I don't like the fact that this makes splashutils move to the verbose state.