Bug#250888: gdm package creates rcN.d startup links in too many runlevels

[Micah Parrish]

/usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.runlevels.gz says you're right.  Thanks
for correcting my misunderstanding.

However, gdm looped and crashed back to the login prompt at least 12
times and would not stop.  It would give me a brief window of about 3
seconds to type in root/password.  It took me about 12 times to type it
all in the time allotted.



On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 03:34, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mar 25/05/2004 =C3=A0 19:13, Micah Parrish a =C3=A9crit :
> > Package: gdm
> > Version: 2.4.4.7-3
> > Severity: important
> > Tags: sid
> >=20
> >=20
> > Upon installing gdm I discovered that S99gdm links had been created i=
n
> > runlevels 2 3 4 5 rather than only in runlevel 5.  This has the
> > unfortunate consequence that if gdm can't start it loops infinitely=20
> > even in runlevel 3 which is supposed to not start X.
>=20
> In Debian there is no such restriction; the default runlevel is 2, and
> it is surely supposed to start X.
>=20
> Furthermore, GDM shouldn't loop infinitely, but rather stop after a few
> attempts.