Description of problem: It is nice that gdm now offers to restart in the newly chosen language - unfortunately it seems to hang for me every time I click Yes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gdm-2.19.3-3.fc8 How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. chose a new lang in gdm 2. answer Yes to restart dialog Actual results: Black screen with cursor over "hourglass". Expected results: gdm to restart in new language Additional info: After that have to "killall gdm-binary" to restart gdm.
Created attachment 160191 [details] ps aux output when gdm hangs I can reproduce this with gdm-2.19.4-1.fc8.x86_64, I think it should be easy to fix I've attached the output of "ps aux" when the hang happens, it seems that gdm-greeter has died, but hasn't been reaped yet, so maybe a waitpid on the wrong pid, or something like that.
I see the "[gdmgreeter] <defunct>" too FWIW. It would be good to fix this but if we can't for F8 then IMHO the feature should be disabled since it is highly annoying. ("killall gdm-binary" does bring back a new login screen, but that is not an option for normal users.)
yea, we should fix this before F8 (but not until after feature freeze, test 2)
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