No, the patch doesn't fix the problem. I still have the black screen with the cursor when I close the xsession, only the windowmanager is closed. consolemessage: xinit: Operation not permitted (errno 1): Can't kill X server kernel has capabilities, xinit has no caps granted.
Chris > I'm setting up a vm to play with this. Will look into it. > > Oh, looking at a few branches, I see that the patch for bug# 9247 > (on bugzilla.kernel.org) isn't in 2.6.24-rc2 yet. Can you check > whether the following patch fixes it? > > thanks, > -serge > > >From 347faf5852644b91632813885784104f4cdb640a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Serge E. Hallyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:00:52 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] file capabilities: allow sigcont within session > (v2.6.24-rc2) > > Allow sigcont to be sent to a process with greater capabilities > if it is in the same session. Otherwise, a shell from which > I've started a root shell and done 'suspend' can't be restarted > by the parent shell. > > (this patch against v2.6.24-rc2) > > Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > security/commoncap.c | 2 ++ > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c > index bf67871..c9f6867 100644 > --- a/security/commoncap.c > +++ b/security/commoncap.c > @@ -534,6 +534,8 @@ int cap_task_kill(struct task_struct *p, struct siginfo > *info, > * Used only by usb drivers? > */ > return 0; > + if (sig == SIGCONT && (task_session_nr(current)==task_session_nr(p))) > + return 0; > if (cap_issubset(p->cap_permitted, current->cap_permitted)) > return 0; > if (capable(CAP_KILL)) > -- > 1.5.1.1.GIT -------------------- Chris Friedhoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/