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Re: [Fwd: Some qemu+hurd questions]



Svante Signell, le Tue 09 Nov 2010 19:24:35 +0100, a écrit :
> On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 17:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Mon 08 Nov 2010 20:56:01 +0100, a écrit :
> > > On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 11:55 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > > Svante Signell, le Sat 06 Nov 2010 10:22:50 +0100, a écrit :
> > > ...
> > > > > Starting and leaving X as root restores the Hurd console. However,
> > > > > running X as user does not restore it. The Hurd console is shown for a
> > > > > short time, then back to a low resolution black console with a large
> > > > > cross cursor!
> > > > 
> > > > I've never seen that, so you're on your own on this one.
> > > 
> > > Any hints how to debug.
> > 
> > Aaah, I think I now remember, it must but a reminicence of an old bug
> > being that xinit is not allowed to kill the X server, and thus the X
> > server just cycles.  You should be able to use ctrl-alt-backspace to
> > kill it (you'll probably need to enable it thanks to the
> > terminate(ctrl_alt_bksp) option of setxkbmap.
> 
> Thanks, I'll try to find out how setxkbmap works.
> 
> > Strace doesn't work on the Hurd, btw.
> 
> I found xtrace, is that usable?

That's only useful for the X discussion between X clients and servers.
The problem here is the Unix relation between xinit and X.

Samuel


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