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Bug 345109 - gnome-base/gdm restarts while system is rebooting or shutting down
Summary: gnome-base/gdm restarts while system is rebooting or shutting down
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] GNOME (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team
URL: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.c...
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Reported: 2010-11-11 14:36 UTC by Alessandro Guido
Modified: 2011-06-26 18:01 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Description Alessandro Guido 2010-11-11 14:36:01 UTC
Whenever I shutdown or restart my system from GNOME, I can observe that gdm gets restarted while the shutdown process is going and then it gets killed and the computer shuts down.
I'm using the nvidia proprietary driver, so whenever gdm gets loaded/unloaded this translates to horrifying flickering.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Press shutdown (or restart) from GNOME.

Actual Results:  
GNOME shuts down.
The screen goes black.
The console content is shown.
The screen goes black.
The gdm login manager begins to load.
The screen goes black.
the console content is shown.
the computer is powered down.

Expected Results:  
GNOME shuts down.
Screen goes black.
Console content appears.
Computer powers down.
Comment 1 Alessandro Guido 2010-11-11 14:41:29 UTC
I did not mention that this beahaviour slows down considerably the shutdown process, because of the console->xorg transition (and viceversa) that on nvidia is very slow.
Comment 2 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-11-11 18:45:53 UTC
what versions of gdm are affected ?
Comment 3 Alessandro Guido 2010-11-11 22:11:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> what versions of gdm are affected ?
> 

Right now I'm seeing this with 2.32 and I'm pretty sure 2.28 did the same thing, although I can't confirm that because it fails to build.
Comment 4 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2010-11-12 09:11:12 UTC
I am sure of seeing this even with gdm-2.20 since a lot of time :-/
Comment 5 Giacomo Perale 2010-12-07 20:44:30 UTC
I can confirm the same problem with 2.20 and 2.28.
Comment 6 Sergey Ilinykh 2011-03-18 06:47:59 UTC
same here
2.20.11
Comment 7 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2011-06-26 09:46:33 UTC
This will need to be fixed by upstream and, then, we will try to backport the patch if possible
Comment 8 Alessandro Guido 2011-06-26 14:36:38 UTC
I may add that I'm not able to reproduce this bug anymore with gdm-3
Comment 9 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-06-26 15:54:00 UTC
(In reply to comment #8)
> I may add that I'm not able to reproduce this bug anymore with gdm-3

For me, it happens every time with gdm-3.0.4
Comment 10 Alessandro Guido 2011-06-26 18:01:01 UTC
(In reply to comment #9)
> For me, it happens every time with gdm-3.0.4

Then maybe it's because I'm using the SystemD init daemon now.