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 1N8GaS-0004lj-3P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:02:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2F4A6E0A60; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:02:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from doki-pen.org (doki-pen.org [74.207.224.154]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B51EE0A60 for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:02:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by doki-pen.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B6B1B538E9; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:02:26 -0500 (EST) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xdm doesn't restart on killed X In-Reply-To: <200911111636.07548.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> References: <200911101848.53220.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20091111141745.58CF5538E9@doki-pen.org> <200911111636.07548.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:02:26 -0500 Message-Id: <20091111170226.B6B1B538E9@doki-pen.org> From: doki_pen@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 X-Archives-Salt: 3e4f0213-f057-4dbe-943e-e0e8ce38c3a5 X-Archives-Hash: 51346cdd3a64270702e23f9e2e9c048e In gmane.linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > 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? > > >From /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old: Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x38) [0x812a180] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Nothing useful in .xession-errors