Hi, (better late than never?) michael urman <urman@students.uiuc.edu> (10/01/2000): > I was running xdm for a long time with several more vc's (added in > /etc/inittab on ttys through tty10), and suddenly around the time of > the package split my machine would lock on boot. We eventually > traced it to the conflicting tty which had suddenly become specified > as tty7 instead of the default "next available" it had previously > used. […] > Also, the included changed files may not all have changed - i did > for a while have one of the "xdm themes" running, and after i > realized it was causing me to be unable to return to a text mode > after exiting xdm (and the reset and whatever scripts run), i > replaced the relevant files with my pre-xdm-theme copy. The only > obviously relevant change is in the Xservers file. well, as seen with gdm, picking a VT can be sooooooo wrongly implemented that it's probably a better idea to put a comment on the last line of your inittab file, pointing to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers If you disagree, feel free to discuss that in an upstream bug: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/ Product xorg, component App/xdm. KiBi.
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