On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, John A Chaves wrote: > 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). Thanks, that fixed xdm. I'll keep looking for a similar option for gdm. -Alan _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
