X server not restarting after Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

Murali Parth muralinux at gmail.com
Thu May 5 10:15:22 UTC 2005


On 5/5/05, Toralf Lund <toralf at procaptura.com> wrote:
> A problem I've had since I upgraded to FC3:
> If I press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, I expect (based on behaviour on older
> releases) that the X session is ended and the login screen appears.
> However, it will now effectively terminate the whole GUI - i.e. the X
> server is killed but not restarted. Workaround: Text console login, then
> killall -TERM gdm-binary.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?
> - Toralf

Hello
I too experience the same behaviour on FC3, and I solve it much the
same way. However, today I found that it works out of the box without
any intervention.I'll get back if I am able to get more details.
Murali




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