[Techtalk] gdm has a twin brother...

[Karine Proot]

Hi there,

   Since the first day I'm running Gentoo on my box, gdm appears twice
at startup. Here is what ps tells to me at that time:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   VSZ  RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
root         1  3.2  0.0  1464  512 ?        S    07:35   0:04 init [3]
root         2  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00 [keventd]
root         3  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SWN  07:35   0:00
[ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root         4  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00 [kswapd]
root         5  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00 [bdflush]
root         6  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00
[kupdated]
root         7  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00
[pagebufd]
root         8  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00
[xfslogd/0]
root         9  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00
[xfsdatad/0]
root       295  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00 [khubd]
root       328  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00
[kjournald]
root       478  0.0  0.1  1816  940 ?        S    07:35   0:00
/sbin/devfsd /dev
root       708  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00
[kreiserfsd]
root      1226  0.0  0.1  1704  692 ?        S    07:35   0:00
/usr/sbin/syslog-ng
root      1329  0.0  0.0     0    0 ?        SW   07:35   0:00
[knodemgrd_0]
root      2023  0.0  0.2  3284 1448 ?        S    07:35   0:00
/usr/sbin/sshd
root      2085  0.0  0.1  1644  660 ?        S    07:36   0:00
/usr/sbin/cron
root      2122  0.0  0.1  1500  576 vc/1     S    07:36   0:00
/sbin/agetty 38400 tty1 linux
root      2123  0.0  0.2  2280 1032 ?        S    07:36   0:00 login --
root
root      2124  0.0  0.1  1500  576 vc/3     S    07:36   0:00
/sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
root      2125  0.0  0.1  1500  576 vc/4     S    07:36   0:00
/sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
root      2126  0.0  0.1  1500  576 vc/5     S    07:36   0:00
/sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
root      2127  0.0  0.1  1500  576 vc/6     S    07:36   0:00
/sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
root      2143  0.0  0.6 14292 3532 ?        S    07:36   0:00
/usr/bin/gdm
root      2145  0.0  0.8 14864 4196 ?        S    07:36   0:00
/usr/bin/gdm
root      2146  3.8  3.6 286072 18856 ?      RL   07:36   0:04
/etc/X11/X :0 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/lib/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7

   I lived with it 'fine' (although annoyed) for some monthes, but I
recently upgraded my kernel to 2.4.25 and now X won't shut properly, I
get messages telling another X is already running on :0, and I can't
even shutdown in console as it tells me gdm has failed to stop.
   Can anyone point me in one direction to understand the problem, as
googling about it gave me no clue ?

Karine