Bug#560968: gdm: seems to have incorrect startup dependencies and stops too early

[Bas Wijnen]

Package: gdm
Version: 2.20.10-1

Since I upgraded to dependency-based boot, there are two problems:

- Sometimes the initial server startup fails.  Gdm then tries a second
  time.  This does work, but the automatic login is not used, so I need
  to manually log in in that case.  Because the new server successfully
  starts, I can't find a log of the failure.

- When powering off using gnome, the X server is killed, then gdm
  restarts it, and during this restart gdm is stopped.  Eventually the
  system does shut down, but it seems to take much longer than it should
  because of this.  Gdm should not try to restart X when the machine is
  shutting down: it should be the first thing to be stopped, and that
  should be the reason for X dying.  It seems that X is killed before
  gdm is stopped.

I put those in one bug report because I think they are the same bug,
namely an error in the boot dependencies.  If I'm wrong about that,
please clone and rename as appropriate.

Thanks,
Bas
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