Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-09 Thread lhecking
Nice to know I'm not the only one that tries to use system facilities the way they were intended to work and has problems. Maybe if you touch the bug report so they know I'm not the only one the folks will look and elevate to RH bug just like they used to do? I was surprised that crash

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-09 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 12:50:41PM +0100, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: While only vaguely related to this topic, does anyone else find that CentOS6 desktop stability is lacking? Or did we just never notice because no monitoring was in place pre-C6? I'm refering to abrtd which is

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-09 Thread Robert Nichols
On 04/09/2015 06:50 AM, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: While only vaguely related to this topic, does anyone else find that CentOS6 desktop stability is lacking? Or did we just never notice because no monitoring was in place pre-C6? I'm refering to abrtd which is sending out a

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-09 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 12:50 +0100, lheck...@users.sourceforge.net wrote: snip While only vaguely related to this topic, does anyone else find that CentOS6 desktop stability is lacking? Or did we just never notice because no monitoring was in place pre-C6? I'm refering to abrtd which is

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Bill Maltby (C4B)
On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 10:36 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) centos4b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: 100% with Digimer here. snip All this energy should be put into contributing towards to the project, testing, helping out

[CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) centos4b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: 100% with Digimer here. snip All this energy should be put into contributing towards to the project, testing, helping out community. Well, I used to agree. But when a bug report

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread David Both
The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself or the desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This works for Upstart in CentOS 6.x but will not work for CentOS 7.x which uses Systemd. The service command does not work for gdm. However, logging out of the desktop will

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, David Both db...@millennium-technology.com wrote: The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself or the desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This works for Upstart in CentOS 6.x but will not work for CentOS 7.x which uses Systemd. The service command

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Bill Maltby (C4B) centos4b...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2015-04-08 at 10:36 +, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2015-04-04, Bill Maltby (C4B) centos4b...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 11:12 +0100, Nux! wrote: 100% with Digimer here. snip All this energy should be put

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 08.04.2015 um 13:08 schrieb David Both db...@millennium-technology.com: The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself or the desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This works for Upstart in CentOS 6.x but will not work for CentOS 7.x which uses Systemd. The

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 08.04.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com: On 2015-04-08, David Both db...@millennium-technology.com wrote: The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself or the desktop simply press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This works for Upstart in CentOS 6.x

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.04.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com: On 2015-04-08, David Both db...@millennium-technology.com wrote: The easy way to restart gdm is when you are on the login screen itself or the desktop simply

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com wrote: On 2015-04-08, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 08.04.2015 um 16:22 schrieb Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com: On 2015-04-08, David Both db...@millennium-technology.com wrote: The easy way to restart gdm is when

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2015-04-08, Jonathan Billings billi...@negate.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:36:05AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: Thanks for drawing my attention to that bug. I encountered it the other day after switching from runlevel 5 to 3 (and back again) on a CentOS 6.6 machine. The purpose of

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 10:36:05AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: Thanks for drawing my attention to that bug. I encountered it the other day after switching from runlevel 5 to 3 (and back again) on a CentOS 6.6 machine. The purpose of the runlevel switch was to restart gdm. Is there a better

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Jonathan Billings
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 07:16:48PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: Xorg is in fact a sub-sub-process of gdm-binary. Yup. In fact, it's possible to run GDM without X at all, such as when you're running display manager with XDMCP. -- Jonathan Billings billi...@negate.org

Re: [CentOS] Problems with getty and X on runlevel switch [Was: Re: The future of centos]

2015-04-08 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 08.04.2015 um 21:16 schrieb Liam O'Toole liam.p.oto...@gmail.com: On 2015-04-08, Leon Fauster leonfaus...@googlemail.com wrote: gdm is a sub-process of X ... Not according to the output of pstree. See the following snippet: oh, i had something in mind that obviously is obsolete, okay