[xwin-discuss] X server does not cleanly shutdown into text mode 2008.11

2009-04-29 Thread Aaron Zang
Hi Jon, I did not get what you meant and what you wanted to know, but the following might be of help: Try boot from boot text which is the second option in grub; Use cde-login instead of gdm to drop to console (I saw you already did that). Hope it helps. Aaron On 04/29/09 08:41, Jon Strabala

[xwin-discuss] X server does not cleanly shutdown into text mode 2008.11

2009-04-29 Thread Frank Middleton
On 04/28/09 20:41, Jon Strabala wrote: I have an issue with the X server not cleanly shutting down on either an init 0 or an init 6 or a shutdown/restart/reboot form the GUI You are not the only one having this problem. When gdm (or an xdmcp session) terminates, the screen either goes blank

[xwin-discuss] X server does not cleanly shutdown into text mode 2008.11

2009-04-29 Thread Aaron Zang
Frank Middleton wrote: On 04/28/09 20:41, Jon Strabala wrote: I have an issue with the X server not cleanly shutting down on either an init 0 or an init 6 or a shutdown/restart/reboot form the GUI You are not the only one having this problem. When gdm (or an xdmcp session) terminates, the

[xwin-discuss] X server does not cleanly shutdown into text mode 2008.11

2009-04-29 Thread Jon Strabala
On 04/29/09 10:29, Aaron Zang wrote: . the main point was that terminating gdm (or X) results in an unusable display. Exactly my point for the initial post. and the only workaround for that, other than rebooting, is to ssh in from elsewhere and restart gdm (or X). This, too, seems to

[xwin-discuss] X server does not cleanly shutdown into text mode 2008.11

2009-04-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Aaron Zang wrote: I do not use opensolaris everyday, so I don't know if dtlogin got kicked out of opensolaris entirely. It was never included in OpenSolaris - since CDE is being EOL'ed, the packages didn't get converted to IPS. (A few runtime packages that are staying for binary compatibility

[xwin-discuss] X server does not cleanly shutdown into text mode 2008.11

2009-04-28 Thread Jon Strabala
Hello, I have an issue with the X server not cleanly shutting down on either an init 0 or an init 6 or a shutdown/restart/reboot form the GUI I can use the cde-login menu to select a command line login and it gos to my laptops console text mode cleanly. But when I use the GUI as indicated in