Bug#372108: stopping gdm garbles console fonts

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sun Feb 28 11:42:54 UTC 2010


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kthxbye

Hi Teemu,

a while ago you reported the following bug against gdm in Debian:

On Thu, Jun  8, 2006 at 11:56:13 +0200, Teemu Ikonen wrote:

> If I stop gdm (by /etc/init.d/gdm stop) in my TiBook III G4 Powerbook, the
> console fonts become garbled and unreadable. Reloading the console font with
> consolechars does not help, but starting gdm again fixes them.
> 
> If I start X with "startx" and exit, the fonts are fine.
> 
> This bug was present even before the recent Xorg upgrade in etch, but the
> new Xorg did not fix it.
> 
Can you still reproduce this with recent gdm and X?  If so, please
attach your X log so we have a bit more information.  Thanks!

Cheers,
Julien





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