login screen in f8??

Rodd Clarkson rodd at clarkson.id.au
Wed Oct 10 05:54:38 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 16:42 -0500, chris at idlelion.net wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Tom London wrote:
> 
> > On 10/9/07, Ben Little <bjaming at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I know I'm not crazy, but I have seen an "alternate" log in screen that has
> >> flashed itself at me a couple of times while x-server is starting up.  It's
> >> got a big yellow flower on it and a pastel background (I think--can't
> >
> > Yes, I've seen this, but only when doing a "shutdown" after doing a
> > "yum update" that includes gdm (or similar packages).
> 
> I've seen it during shutdown too... very briefly.

I've seen it too and wondered why.  It seems that when I
restart/poweroff, it logs me out, X restarts, the login manager appears
and then the system continues to shutdown/reboot.


R.
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