startx doen't die on logout

[Keven Ring]

Oisin Curtin wrote:

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>>>Jeff Vian wrote:
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>>>>>and configured XF86Config. The X session seems to work fine,
>>>>>with the exception that when I logout of the session, I don't
>>>>>return to the login window. I have to kill startx from a remote 
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>>>>To kill it in that setup  use ctl-alt-bksp and it will return you to 
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>>>>If you are in runlevel 5 (graphics) I don't have a clue. :-(
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>>>I have a laptop + dock station at work with Fedora Core 1 installed, 
>>>with all of it's packages up to date.  The laptop displays with a 
>>>resolution of 1400x1050, while my external flat panel only can do 
>>>1280x1024.  If I log out of my laptop, the screen becomes completely 
>>>unusable - that is, a black screen.  Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does *not* 
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>>>All three laptops have ATI graphics cards, while the desktop at home 
>>>has a Matrox MGA card.
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>I have an HP vectra at work with matrox on MB, works fine.
>Exact same vectra at home, but with added ATI @work, fails on logout
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>I kill (signal TERM, the default) the two copies of gdm-binary instead
>of kill -9 X.  It seems to be a cleaner kill.  (Did I just say that?)
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>>>If I had to take a stab in the dark, I'd say that there might be 
>>>something wrong when X tries to log out and there are different 
>>>display resolutions, but that's just a wild stab.
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>I wonder if it's a problem in the ATI driver?  Anyone have this problem
>without an ATI card?
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The "original" poster indicated that they had an NVidia card....

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>>When I set the laptop to have 2x1280x1024 displays, login/logout works 
>>fine.  When I reset the display to 1x1400x1050, 1x1280x1024, the X 
>>Server fails to terminate.
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>Is this true for repeated login/logout or just the first one or two 
>times?  ISTR experimenting along the same lines.
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Well, logging out of the 2x1280x1024 worked twice in a row.  I changed 
the X config back to 1x1400x1050, 1x1280x1024, and it failed to log out.

Given that I don't log out that often, I haven't experimented logging in 
and out more than that.