Re: Regression in gdm-2.18 since 2.6.24

["Carlos R. Mafra" <crmafra2@gmail.com>]

On Tue  8.Apr'08 at 14:20:27 +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:48:33AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> >  Well, I found your analysis convincing.  Unfortunately, my hardware
> > disagreed.  Testing -rc8 with CONFIG_GROUP_SCHED disabled (a test is
> > a mixture of 5 attempts to restart and 5 to shutdown):
> > 
> > 1. the base version success is 4/10
> > 
> > 2. increasing the granularity by a factor of 10 as you requested,
> > success is 8/10
> 
> This makes me think that we are just exposing a timing related problem
> in gdm here.

I can see the same issue in my desktop with kdm, but I've never had
the energy to bisect or look further into it, so I just type halt or
reboot in xterm :-(

But the fact is that a few days ago I tried rebooting through kdm button,
but it left me with a console login screen (and no reboot).

It also happened a few times before too (and I am always using a 
uptodated 2.6.25-rcX kernel).