Bug 201167

Summary:	Unable to prevent local X server from running with GDM 2.20.1
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Andy Wang <dopey>
Component:	[OLD] GNOME	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jesus.de.santos
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	gdm custom.conf file

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) gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

2008-01-14 23:35:07 UTC

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