Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xdm doesn't restart on killed X
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 19:02:26 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:17:45 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:54:48 Doki Pen wrote: I've recently switched from gdm to xdm in an effort to reduce my distro size. The only problem I've run into is that when I kill my X session, xdm doesn't restart automatically. I have to switch to a vtty and type exec sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart. I've read the man pages and googled but can't come up with a solution. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this issue? When X exists, is xdm still running or has it died too? You can tell when restarting xdm if it gives errors about xdm not running when the stop phase of restart is run xdm is not running after I kill my xsession. It is running after I log in. I tested using ps -Af | grep -i xdm. Ok, so I reckon the init script dies because xdm dies when X exists. is there anything relevant in your messages log file, Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession- errors and similar logs? From /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x38) [0x812a180] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting That's a segfault so there's a serious bug. It's likely in X itself. Did you recently upgrade X and at the same time rebuild all it's app and all drivers - without exception? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: xdm doesn't restart on killed X
In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 19:02:26 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:17:45 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:54:48 Doki Pen wrote: I've recently switched from gdm to xdm in an effort to reduce my distro size. The only problem I've run into is that when I kill my X session, xdm doesn't restart automatically. I have to switch to a vtty and type exec sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart. I've read the man pages and googled but can't come up with a solution. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this issue? When X exists, is xdm still running or has it died too? You can tell when restarting xdm if it gives errors about xdm not running when the stop phase of restart is run xdm is not running after I kill my xsession. It is running after I log in. I tested using ps -Af | grep -i xdm. Ok, so I reckon the init script dies because xdm dies when X exists. is there anything relevant in your messages log file, Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession- errors and similar logs? From /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x38) [0x812a180] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting That's a segfault so there's a serious bug. It's likely in X itself. Did you recently upgrade X and at the same time rebuild all it's app and all drivers - without exception? This has happened since I have switched to xdm. I've run revdep-rebuild and lafilefixer since my last X upgrade. Is there any other way to check for broken libs?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xdm doesn't restart on killed X
On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:05:38 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 19:02:26 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:17:45 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:54:48 Doki Pen wrote: I've recently switched from gdm to xdm in an effort to reduce my distro size. The only problem I've run into is that when I kill my X session, xdm doesn't restart automatically. I have to switch to a vtty and type exec sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart. I've read the man pages and googled but can't come up with a solution. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this issue? When X exists, is xdm still running or has it died too? You can tell when restarting xdm if it gives errors about xdm not running when the stop phase of restart is run xdm is not running after I kill my xsession. It is running after I log in. I tested using ps -Af | grep -i xdm. Ok, so I reckon the init script dies because xdm dies when X exists. is there anything relevant in your messages log file, Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession- errors and similar logs? From /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x38) [0x812a180] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting That's a segfault so there's a serious bug. It's likely in X itself. Did you recently upgrade X and at the same time rebuild all it's app and all drivers - without exception? This has happened since I have switched to xdm. I've run revdep-rebuild and lafilefixer since my last X upgrade. Is there any other way to check for broken libs? Checking for broken libs is not going to fix a segfault. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xdm doesn't restart on killed X
On Thursday 12 November 2009 18:29:31 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:05:38 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 19:02:26 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:17:45 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:54:48 Doki Pen wrote: I've recently switched from gdm to xdm in an effort to reduce my distro size. The only problem I've run into is that when I kill my X session, xdm doesn't restart automatically. I have to switch to a vtty and type exec sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart. I've read the man pages and googled but can't come up with a solution. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this issue? When X exists, is xdm still running or has it died too? You can tell when restarting xdm if it gives errors about xdm not running when the stop phase of restart is run xdm is not running after I kill my xsession. It is running after I log in. I tested using ps -Af | grep -i xdm. Ok, so I reckon the init script dies because xdm dies when X exists. is there anything relevant in your messages log file, Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession- errors and similar logs? From /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x38) [0x812a180] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting That's a segfault so there's a serious bug. It's likely in X itself. Did you recently upgrade X and at the same time rebuild all it's app and all drivers - without exception? This has happened since I have switched to xdm. I've run revdep-rebuild and lafilefixer since my last X upgrade. Is there any other way to check for broken libs? Checking for broken libs is not going to fix a segfault. So what should I do? upgrade X? upgrade xdm? Downgrade xdm methinks -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: xdm doesn't restart on killed X
In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Thursday 12 November 2009 16:05:38 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 19:02:26 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:17:45 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:54:48 Doki Pen wrote: I've recently switched from gdm to xdm in an effort to reduce my distro size. The only problem I've run into is that when I kill my X session, xdm doesn't restart automatically. I have to switch to a vtty and type exec sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart. I've read the man pages and googled but can't come up with a solution. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this issue? When X exists, is xdm still running or has it died too? You can tell when restarting xdm if it gives errors about xdm not running when the stop phase of restart is run xdm is not running after I kill my xsession. It is running after I log in. I tested using ps -Af | grep -i xdm. Ok, so I reckon the init script dies because xdm dies when X exists. is there anything relevant in your messages log file, Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession- errors and similar logs? From /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x38) [0x812a180] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting That's a segfault so there's a serious bug. It's likely in X itself. Did you recently upgrade X and at the same time rebuild all it's app and all drivers - without exception? This has happened since I have switched to xdm. I've run revdep-rebuild and lafilefixer since my last X upgrade. Is there any other way to check for broken libs? Checking for broken libs is not going to fix a segfault. So what should I do? upgrade X? upgrade xdm?
[gentoo-user] Re: xdm doesn't restart on killed X
In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:54:48 Doki Pen wrote: I've recently switched from gdm to xdm in an effort to reduce my distro size. The only problem I've run into is that when I kill my X session, xdm doesn't restart automatically. I have to switch to a vtty and type exec sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart. I've read the man pages and googled but can't come up with a solution. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this issue? When X exists, is xdm still running or has it died too? You can tell when restarting xdm if it gives errors about xdm not running when the stop phase of restart is run xdm is not running after I kill my xsession. It is running after I log in. I tested using ps -Af | grep -i xdm.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xdm doesn't restart on killed X
On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:17:45 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:54:48 Doki Pen wrote: I've recently switched from gdm to xdm in an effort to reduce my distro size. The only problem I've run into is that when I kill my X session, xdm doesn't restart automatically. I have to switch to a vtty and type exec sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart. I've read the man pages and googled but can't come up with a solution. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this issue? When X exists, is xdm still running or has it died too? You can tell when restarting xdm if it gives errors about xdm not running when the stop phase of restart is run xdm is not running after I kill my xsession. It is running after I log in. I tested using ps -Af | grep -i xdm. Ok, so I reckon the init script dies because xdm dies when X exists. is there anything relevant in your messages log file, Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession- errors and similar logs? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
[gentoo-user] Re: xdm doesn't restart on killed X
In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:17:45 doki_...@doki-pen.org wrote: In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: On Tuesday 10 November 2009 17:54:48 Doki Pen wrote: I've recently switched from gdm to xdm in an effort to reduce my distro size. The only problem I've run into is that when I kill my X session, xdm doesn't restart automatically. I have to switch to a vtty and type exec sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart. I've read the man pages and googled but can't come up with a solution. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this issue? When X exists, is xdm still running or has it died too? You can tell when restarting xdm if it gives errors about xdm not running when the stop phase of restart is run xdm is not running after I kill my xsession. It is running after I log in. I tested using ps -Af | grep -i xdm. Ok, so I reckon the init script dies because xdm dies when X exists. is there anything relevant in your messages log file, Xorg.0.log, ~/.xsession- errors and similar logs? From /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x38) [0x812a180] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Nothing useful in .xession-errors