Hi all,
On a CentOS 4.2, x86_64 system, I created a new session that is selectable from the sessions list in GDM. To make GDM see the changes, I ran the following:
gdm-safe-restart
That's supposed to make GDM re-read it's config files. Well, it worked, but instead of staying on vt7, GDM moved to vt9. At first it looked liked GDM had died, but I ran ps aux|grep gdm, and found it running on vt9. Odd, that. I then tried a gdm-restart, and GDM disappeared again. It had moved to vt10. Odder, still.
I was only able to get GDM to restart on vt7 by killing the GDM process, or by changing the server's run level from 5, to 3 and back to 5.
On a CentOS 4.2, i386 box, gdm-safe-restart and gdm-restart function as I expected them to: GDM restarts and stays on vt7. I also didn't notice any problems on a FC4 box.
There isn't much of anything in terms of documentation on gdm-safe-restart and gdm-restart. I'm fairly sure I'm using them correctly.
Anyone else notice this behaviour?
Regards,
Ranbir