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Bug 1628 - xdm infinite loop.
Summary: xdm infinite loop.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Unspecified (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2002-04-09 17:37 UTC by Sherman Boyd
Modified: 2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
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Description Sherman Boyd 2002-04-09 17:37:00 UTC 
After misconfiguring xdm I get into trouble.  After a reboot, it starts X and 
then fails, restarts X, fails, endlessly.  Wouldn't a more fault tolerant 
behaviour be to try "x" amount of times and then go back to a console login?  I 
had to cold boot back into the install cd and remove xdm from the startup.  
Since I wasn't able to umount my partitions I consider this a bad thing.
Comment 1 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-04-21 13:37:43 UTC 
Upstream problem ...  will look into a local fix later on
Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-10-12 18:03:33 UTC 
still an issue?