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Bug 71308

Summary:	SIGHUP can terminate session
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Kjetil T. Homme <kjetilho>
Component:	gdm	Assignee:	Havoc Pennington <hp>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	1.0	CC:	jirka
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Description Kjetil T. Homme 2002-08-12 09:45:25 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020808

Description of problem:
after adding another X server to gdm.conf and sending SIGHUP, the existing
session is thrown out.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
0. be logged on to :0
1. add 1=Standard vt8 to [servers] in gdm.conf
2. kill -HUP `cat /var/run/gdm.pid`
3. wait a few seconds

Actual Results:  the X server on :0 was terminated


Expected Results:  the default /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf says:
# (HUP will make gdm not kill existing sessions and will only restart gdm
# after all users log out)


Additional info:

gdm-2.4.0.7-1

Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-08-12 19:23:25 UTC

Potentially just bogus docs, I'm not sure.

Comment 2 George Lebl 2002-08-13 14:34:48 UTC

Yeah, bogus doc.  Should be USR1.  HUP does immediate restart USR1 does safe
restart.  There are also two scripts gdm-restart and gdm-safe-restart that do
this for you.

Comment 3 Kjetil T. Homme 2002-08-14 00:21:10 UTC

okay, thanks for the info.  (I'd prefer HUP to be the safe restart, since that's
what xdm does, but...)

gdm-*restart isn't included in the RPM, but that's OK.  one of these days I'm
sure Red Hat will make the ${pref}dm run from a normal initscript, so we can
write "service gdm reload" and have it do the right thing.

a manual page would be nice, btw :-)

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2002-08-14 05:50:48 UTC

Can't do 'service gdm'. Other VTs aren't initialized yet, so X startup gets screwed.

Comment 5 Elliot Lee 2002-08-26 18:05:03 UTC

Bogus docs fixed, nothing else to do besides educate users :)