From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N8EJt-0005r2-9m for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:37:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FA22E0959; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:37:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.144]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0092FE0959 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:37:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 3so242169eyh.40 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:37:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=BpxBAMYNBOJn9YmzvR9/w1iig2fJmTJHQa4zqcfRIEQ=; b=LyuuX2MpLWR+JWfDlrQHZNuOwEZfLwieF/7XTYnWkAaLkJTM9mrj1N/Rsxu+E2M/C4 nzYOe/xj1f84E5syf4DZ26Q0nMb8VktQT8XbCRYQgqW5uSio6WqutGIwBfrnD0hoFgMt y9oq6b196J27Z3kitm5USFiRZUFuL9WVnctI8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=ZA4felx8E2HoniZdItVbStUxBDDGJ8gh4TcV+wCw8apKtSWxDKlKc/0P0wS2fVBpBz MgiDwQu1l6IRqUeX6p8havkZPeh586TI20IrVX4XnUNoHh0BNO08muq5dh6IgpxKqEk9 uNFuSLg0afIPj6/F26BuKiPygFQrVl7kmtSe8= Received: by 10.213.100.168 with SMTP id y40mr2664698ebn.28.1257950231427; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:37:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm424322eyd.39.2009.11.11.06.37.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:37:10 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xdm doesn't restart on killed X Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:36:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.90 (Linux/2.6.31-zen7; KDE/4.3.74; x86_64; ; ) References: <200911101848.53220.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20091111141745.58CF5538E9@doki-pen.org> In-Reply-To: <20091111141745.58CF5538E9@doki-pen.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911111636.07548.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: ea0dfc89-3f4b-4965-a68c-9e90d6d91fde X-Archives-Hash: 47c3009d9a43aaeb84f574bf4049516c On Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:17:45 doki_pen@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