Description of Problem: /etc/X11/prefdm directs all output (stdout and stderr) to /dev/null when it execs the display manager. If there happens to be a problem with the display manager (or X), it can be very hard (especially for a new user) to figure out what's wrong. I think that with all other init scripts, output is dumped to the terminal. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 6.40-1 How Reproducible: N/A Steps to Reproduce: N/A Actual Results: N/A Expected Results: N/A Additional Information:
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. Realistically, this behavior will probably not change; if there are specific errors, the display manager will log them (and gdm will pop up a dialog if it notices itself failing excessively.)