From: Timothy Sample <samplet@ngyro.com>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 35509@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35509: Stopping gdm-service results in an unresponsive system
Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 08:36:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87imuupd0h.fsf@ngyro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ebbmdhc.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:42:12 -0400")
Hi Mark,
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> On my x86_64-linux system running the Guix system, when I include
> gdm-service in my system services, 'herd stop xorg-server' results in a
> state where I seemingly cannot recover except by rebooting. I'm left in
> what appears to be an empty Linux text console with a cursor in the top
> left corner, but the keyboard is unresponsive, and I'm not able to
> switch VTs. Perhaps there is some SysRq key combination that could be
> used to recover, but I haven't yet tried.
This has been an issue with GDM since I started working on it. IIRC,
it’s not entirely deterministic (but it fails most of the time). I
don’t have any leads on this yet.
> Since I prefer to use Wayland, and would rather not have a separate Xorg
> session running that I never use, this means that currently I must avoid
> using 'gdm-service' entirely.
Yes. The service does not currently support Wayland. I believe that
Wayland support will require a few modifications to GDM itself. At
least, we ended up modifying the X session startup a little bit, and I
would guess that the Wayland session startup would need similar changes.
> Note that this is on a system running fairly recent 'master', but before
> 'staging' was merged. I'll try again and report back after I've
> finished rebuilding my post-staging-merge system.
Unfortunately, I wouldn’t expect the changes from staging to help here.
-- Tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-01 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-30 20:42 bug#35509: Stopping gdm-service results in an unresponsive system Mark H Weaver
2019-05-01 12:36 ` Timothy Sample [this message]
2019-05-02 19:45 ` Timothy Sample
2019-05-02 21:46 ` Mark H Weaver
2019-05-03 2:15 ` Timothy Sample
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