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Camus

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 71

Gnome 3 - disable GDM restarting when rebooting

When I reboot from Gnome 3 (fallback mode), GDM restarts in the process of shutting down. To explain it more clearly, this is what happens:

1.) I go to "User menu", then press "Shut Down...". A windows appears with various choices. I select "Restart".
2.) Gnome 3 closes down
3.) For a brief moment I see tty1
4.) GDM starts, user login window appears
5.) GDM closes down
6.) I see tty1 again. At this point sometimes steps 4 and 5 repeat again.
7.) System shuts down

I have gdm in daemons list (rc.conf) and my .xinitrc has nothing about gdm in it. I noticed something similar when using SLiM; when I had it in my daemons list (not the same system) and killed it later from tty2, it would automatically restart itself.

Any ideas?

Last edited by Camus (2011-07-08 13:03:15)

andrewthomas

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Registered: 2010-05-08

Posts: 52

Re: Gnome 3 - disable GDM restarting when rebooting

Have you tried to remove it from the daemons list in rc.conf and start it from /etc/inittab?

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Carlinhos

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Registered: 2011-07-08

Posts: 41

Re: Gnome 3 - disable GDM restarting when rebooting

I think this has happened to me as well, why does it bother you though?