GNU bug report logs - #35408
External monitor not working with GDM

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> sturm.com.au>

Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 04:37:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Royce Strange <royball <at> disroot.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 35408 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: Ben Sturmfels <ben <at> sturm.com.au>, 35408 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35408: External monitor not working with GDM
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2019 18:37:10 +0200

Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> skribis:

>> Apr 25 20:30:55 localhost gdm: Child process -15096 was already dead. 
>> Apr 25 20:30:55 localhost gdm: Child process 15093 was already dead. 
>> Apr 25 20:30:55 localhost gdm: Unable to kill session worker process 
>
> WTF.  I hope they don't kill the same pid twice and thus risk killing
> innocent bystanders that happen to reuse the pid of the dead process.
>
> common/gdm-common.c gdm_signal_pid ... yes, they do.

:-)
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