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Whenever I try to restart or shutdown my computer from Gnome, the screen goes blank and the gdm login screen appears. It then just sits there and does nothing. I have to restart from another tty. This only just started happening but I can't figure out what I installed to do it. If I go to another tty, then back to the X Server, it will continue the shutdown.
Any suggestions?
Last edited by gamewolf (2009-12-03 04:21:15)
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Ok I figured out that it was my boot splash screen that was causing the problem. I removed it from my mkinitcpio.conf. and it returned to normal. It still does not show the shutdown processes tho and the boot splash screen will not work. I can try downgrading to an early gdm. Any suggestions otherwise?
Thanks.
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I have a similar problem - when I want to shutdown/restart, it just logs out.
On one machine, I have autologin enabled, so it goes straight into the default account after the shut down attempt.
When I try to shut down for the second time, either from GDM or from that fresh default account, it succeeds.
I experience this on two machines, so I believe that there has to be more of us :-)
However, it is not related to any splash thing since I am not into these things. And I also don't experience any lock-ups as gamewolf.
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Ok I downgraded GDM and it didn't help. I am still unable to view the shutdown processes.
Bubla, when you click Shutdown or Restart from the Gnome menu, after GDM reloads, hit Ctrl-F1. Does it show that the computer goes into Runlevel 0 or 6? Then try going back to Ctrl-F7. When I went back to it, the shutdown/restart processes kicked in.
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Sorry that it took so long, I have been away from my computer.
I can't reliably reproduce this behavior, it is random. When I take look at all VTs after failed restart, there is nothing of interest. Nothing.
I will keep investigating before making a bug report...
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I am also having this problem. I believe I only began having this problem when I switched the way in which gdm is started.
previously I was starting gdm as a daemon in /etc/rc.conf, I switched to using /etc/inittab. I believe this is when this problem began.
Which method are you guys using to start gdm?
Last edited by frankumz (2009-12-20 01:41:45)
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try changing in /etc/splash.conf
DEFAULT_TTY=8to
DEFAULT_TTY=7or whatever tty gdm uses on your machine
PS. that is if you use splashy as bootsplash screen
Last edited by nomail (2010-01-07 14:00:19)
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To me, a major discriminator in the choice of a DM is the user switching. In that context, I have found KDM to be consistently better than GDM. You can certainly run Gnome from KDM. (In my case, KDM is only one of several reasons to choose KDE over Gnome.)
To stay on topic: A major input for the Gnome team is to improve GDM....
"It's always something." --Gilda Radner, 1946 - 1989
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