On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 23:46 -0400, Christophe PEREZ wrote:
> Le Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:18:36 -0400, Chris Gianelloni a écrit :
> 
> > Well, the root user is automatically logged in, and when his .bashrc is
> > executed, it will run startx, or in your case, it will run su - chris -c
> > startx to start X as user chris.
> 
> Well, there is just a problem with that.
> That's not one time root is logged, but 6 times :
> # End of /etc/inittab
> c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -nl /bin/bashlogin 38400 tty1 linux
> c2:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -nl /bin/bashlogin 38400 tty2 linux
> c3:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -nl /bin/bashlogin 38400 tty3 linux
> c4:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -nl /bin/bashlogin 38400 tty4 linux
> c5:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -nl /bin/bashlogin 38400 tty5 linux
> c6:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -nl /bin/bashlogin 38400 tty6 linux
> 
> So, .bashrc is read 6 times, and try to execute X 6 times.
> That's why I had a black screen at boot.

Well, in all of my testing, since the first time .bashrc is read, it
deletes /etc/startx, I didn't have any issues.  Perhaps my sessions are
starting slower than yours?

> For the moment, I'll just comment c[2-6] by fsscript, but if there are a
> more pretty solution...
> 
> PS : Saw the ChangeLog, Chris ;-)

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Chris Gianelloni
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