Bug 201167 – Unable to prevent local X server from running with GDM 2.20.1

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andy Wang 2007-12-04 01:46:30 UTC]

I use the following:
[servers]
0=inactive

Intermittently, GDM starts up a local X server.  When that happens, the following shows up in my messages syslog log:
gdm[7517]: WARNING: Server name 'inactive' not found; using standard server



Reproducible: Sometimes

[Comment 1 Andy Wang 2007-12-04 01:47:06 UTC]

Created attachment 137673 [details]
gdm custom.conf file

[Comment 2 Jesus de Santos Garcia 2008-01-09 01:28:39 UTC]

Exactly same problem here.

Seems to be an upstream problem, debian users noticed it too:

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-gnome-maintainers/2007-November/039867.html

I do not have a X local server compiled so I have to boot gdm with --no-console 

[Comment 3 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-01-10 22:40:14 UTC]

I think I saw something about this in gdm-2.20.3 changelog. Could you please test it ?

[Comment 4 Jesus de Santos Garcia 2008-01-14 21:26:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I think I saw something about this in gdm-2.20.3 changelog. Could you please
> test it ?

Hi,

I will try it as soon as posible (I am on holidays now)

[Comment 5 Andy Wang 2008-01-14 23:27:57 UTC]

~amd64'ed gdm 2.20.3 and this problem does appear solved.  I remote restarted gdm a bunch of times and I don't see any X processes starting up.

Looks like they did fix it.

[Comment 6 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2008-01-14 23:35:07 UTC]

thanks for testing. feel to reopen if issue wasn't fixed.