Re: x(dm) freezes at first start
On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 14:21 +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>
> at boot, when xdm is started, x freezes directly after the login screen
> is displayed. sometimes it's possible to type in the login name, but at
> the latest at typing the password, the complete screen freezes.
>
> i'm still able to kill x with magic sysrq key combination:
> <alt>+<sysrq>+<k>
>
> <strg>+<alt>+<backspace> and changing the console screen don't work any
> longer.
>
> as already said, this happens _only_ at the first start of xdm, in the
> boot process. if i stop and afterwards start xdm, it _never_ freezes.
FWIW, I used to see something similar with gdm and kdm a while back, and
it was a VT allocation race between the X server and the gettys. IIRC
the X server would attach to VT 2 but display on VT 7, so it would never
get the input. AFAIR the mouse cursor worked though, is that the case
for you?
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