From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050719 Red Hat/1.0.6-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.6 Description of problem: I noticed this bug after a fresh install of RHEL4 and was able to reproduce it on two different test beds from different source media on different platforms. I also did a full up2date and the problem remains. In short if you boot to runlevel 5 and then login with any user via the gdm login and then Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X it does not respawn as expected. If you switch to another console and kill the '/usr/bin/gdm-binary -nodaemon' process X will respawn immediately. It should be noted that if you do not login to gdm and simply Ctrl-Alt-Backspace at the login screen it will respawn X as expected. The problem only arises after a user has logged in. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.6.0.5-7.rhel4.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot to runlevel 5 2. Log in with any user 3. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Additional info:
Something else I just noticed that I want to comment on is when you kill X at the login screen, X does respawn, but you get an error that "The greeter seems to be crashing. I will attempt to use a different one." or something to that effect pops up. After you click okay you get a more basic logon prompt. Once you login and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace the original issues reoccurs.
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An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0733.html