Re: The XDM trap
*-Craig Sanders ( 8 Jul)
| On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
|
| (in reply to what some other people wrote, but i've accidentally deleted
| the attributions):
| > > > .... The monitor is switching continuously between graphical mode
| > > > and text mode, login is impossible via console. If you are lucky,
| > > > you have already a working network connection and can stop xdm via
| > > > a remote login.
| > >
| > > This problem actually happens to a LOT of people, and absolutely
| > > freaks newbies out to no end.
| >
| > It's also one of the few places old DOS habits can help you out---when
| > that happens, I find it enough to just keep hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del until
| > init catches it, and closes everything down. Then reboot into single
| > user mode.
|
| a better solution would be for the xdm startup script to keep track of
| the time for the last, say, 5 or 10 times that xdm was started. if xdm
| starts too often in too short a time (say 5+ times in a minute), then
| terminate.
|
Or couldn't the /etc/X11/xdm/Xreset script do some parsing of the
/var/log/xdm-errors file or check an exit status(from the X server?)
stored in some file and shutdown xdm if it catches something that
signals to it that X failed to start properly.
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Brian
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