RE: X startup & immediate shutdown (no errors)

["Charlie Reiman" <creiman@kefta.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Drew Cohan [mailto:drewcohan@drewcohan.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 11:27 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: X startup & immediate shutdown (no errors)
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> Can anyone please tell me why X shuts down on its own in the following
> situation? I want it to keep running continuously.
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> I have no window manager installed (don't need one), I've got
> xserver-xfree86 installed, I can use startx fine.  So I type startx, X
> comes up, reads my .xsession file:
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> #!/bin/sh
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> /path/to/myprogram
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> sleep 10
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> which runs my program for ten seconds and then X shuts down by itself
> (no errors).  So the question becomes, how do I keep X running after it
> executes my .xsession file?  What is it looking for/to do next?

This is what's supposed to happen. When your .xsession terminates so does
your X session. So how you prevent it from ending depends on what myprogram
does. If you are starting your program in the background, don't do that. If
you have no choice, you'll need to do something more complicated. If
myprogram must run asynchronously and never terminates, you could do this:

while true; do sleep 100000; done