Hello Eddy, On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:25:45PM +0100, Edward Welbourne wrote: > > I use xrandr -o left in my .xsession so that I can use my screen in > > portrait mode. > > I'm now achieving the equivalent effect by adding > Option "Rotate" "left" > to Section "Monitor" of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf > (which avoids the font problems I had with xrandr -o left) > and now find that xdm always hangs after I log out (where, previously, > it only used to hang if I ran xrandr -o -left in my user session). > > When the X session is hanging, after I've logged out, I find that > /etc/init.d/xdm stop > fails, claiming that the xdm.pid file doesn't exist, even though ps > reports that the xdm process is still running. > > I notice that xmd has two child processes: > > USER PID PPID SZ VSZ RSZ NI CMD > root 17331 1 1399 5596 940 0 /usr/bin/xdm > root 20618 17331 6763 27052 15008 0 /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp > -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-chlHyX > root 20622 17331 2104 8416 5236 0 -:0 > > When logging out has hung the X session, killing the last (which has a > symlink to /usr/bin/xdm as its /proc/20622/exe) causes xdm to exit; > whereas killing the /usr/bin/X process persuades the xdm process to > start a new X login prompt, which works as usual. > > Eddy. >
Sorry for the delay, in the mean time did this get fixed, in squeeze, testing or unstable ? (Also I guess this could be reassigned to xdm, but let's wait to see if it's fixed) Best Regards, -- Julien Viard de Galbert <[email protected]> http://silicone.homelinux.org/ <[email protected]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
