On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 15:27 -0400, ken wrote:
Doing "ps" shows I have two instances of "gdm" running, this after numerous reboots. I'm 99.9999999% certain this should not be.
No, it's perfectly normal, it's how gdm works. If you do ps aux --forest you will see that one gdm starts the other. The first gdm is the one that hangs around all the time, and when you log out it will launch the gdm greeter screen. The second gdm is the one that actually starts X and everything else on your desktop
I can understand some glitch might make this happen once, but what in Suse 9.3 would cause it to happen with every reboot? I'm guessing it would be the same process which puts all the applications onscreen from the previous session. Does anyone know what process this is? (I looked in the gnome "Sessions" GUI app and it's not there.)
No, gdm is before you log in, it is in fact the process responsible for managing the graphical logins.