Bug#240993: gdm doesn't restart correctly upon upgrade

Josselin Mouette Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>, 240993@bugs.debian.org
Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:07:04 +0200


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reopen 240993
thanks

> I suggest that you read archived bug reports for the many reasons why
> automatically restarting a display manager is, in general, a bad idea.
> Especially when the way to query what VT to start on is quite racey.
>=20
> GDM gives an error message to the user that describes what to do, which i=
s
> better than taking out the users keyboard (and, from their point of view,=
 their
> way to login) at the end of an upgrade.

Please try the patch before saying it is not the way to go. The soft
restart doesn't restart the display manager immediately: it waits for
all sessions to end, then politely asks the user whether he wants to
reboot or restart GDM.
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