Bug#390630: xorg hangs on logout when used with this driver

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:13 +0200, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-savage
> Version: 1:2.1.2-1
> Severity: grave
> 
> Hello,
> 
> while 2.1.2-1 apparently fixes bug 389404 + 389794, xorgs hangs
> on logout when used with this driver. KDE applications are closed,
> the desktop vanishes, the mousepointer vanishes and then it hangs.
> 
> No Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and not Ctrl-Alt-F1 yields any result. The machine
> is still pingable.
> 
> This hang only happens on regular logout. Stopping xorg with
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace still seems to work.

Then this seems to be a problem with a server reset and the subsequent
second server generation, and you should be able to work around it by
configuring the display manager to always restart the X server on
logout.


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