Alvaro Figueroa wrote:
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 12:55, Kent West wrote:If at kdm's login screen, I press Ctrl-Alt-F8 to go to the second X session, things are fine IF there's a second X session on -F8; if not, the machine hangs. If from a VT (say, Alt-F2), I press Alt-F8 to go to the second X session, things are fine IF there's a second X session on -F8; if not, the machine hangs.Yeap. I've seen similar stuff on Splack, Gentoo and Sid while using two X clients.
Except that if I actually have two clients running, there doesn't seem to be a problem; it's only when I go through the motions of switching to a second X session when there's not one that the machine hangs.
It wouldn't be so bad if I could ssh in and kill offending processes, but the CPUs are located in another room (VGA & USB extension cables through the wall), and there's only two or three people with access to that room (it's a server room), so when they lock up, the students using the machines are locked out of the machine until one of us key-bearers goes into the server room and cycles the power on the box. Quite inconvenient.
Thanks for the info! -- Kent