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Re: logout freezes system



on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 04:10:36PM +0200, Alexander Steinert (stony8@gmx.de) wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> when I log myself out from X the screen shows starnge vertikal lines.
> The system doesn't react anymore (no keyboard, no mouse, no ping from
> another host; just hard-reset)
> 
> This happens only sometimes / is not reproducable.
> 
> It's not WM specific. I'm running potato with a custom 2.2.18 kernel and
> using:
> xfree86-common 3.3.6-11potato
> xdm            3.3.6-11potato
> ...
> 
> Can you give me any hints, where to look for system messages that might
> help and/or which debugging options I could use (for X / xdm?)?

Is this logout-related or X related?

What happens if you start X from the command line, then exit the
session?  Disable your X display manager startup if necessary.

What happens if you launch a second simultaneous X session and kill it?

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