Alan Schmitz wrote:

>
> I can reliably bring up GDM when the computer first boots to run-level 5,
> and I can reliably login to a single X session.  If I try to reboot the
> computer from within GNOME, it will lock-up hard as soon it's supposed to
> switch to a text mode console.  Logging out of my X session will lock the
> system up hard about 50% of the time on the way back to GDM.  The system
> behaves the same way, if I switch to XDM.
>
> If I boot to run-level 3 and use "startx" to start my X session, I don't
> have any problems rebooting or logging in, starting X, and stopping X
> repeatedly.  While I can continue to operate this way, I'd really rather
> run with a display manager like GDM.
>
> Is there something I can do to GDM, XDM, or the X server itself to keep
> them from crashing the system?

This happens when the Xserver is asked to reset itself after a user session.
A workaround is to kill the Xserver instead, forcing a new one to be loaded.
For at least xdm and kdm, this can be done by setting

DisplayManager*resetSignal:     15

in the appropriate X environment (/etc/X11/xdm/xdm-config I think).

John


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