Bug#555647: x11-xserver-utils: xrandr -o left leaves xdm, after I logout, unresponsive, with no login prompt
Hello Eddy,
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:25:45PM +0100, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> > I use xrandr -o left in my .xsession so that I can use my screen in
> > portrait mode.
>
> I'm now achieving the equivalent effect by adding
> Option "Rotate" "left"
> to Section "Monitor" of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> (which avoids the font problems I had with xrandr -o left)
> and now find that xdm always hangs after I log out (where, previously,
> it only used to hang if I ran xrandr -o -left in my user session).
>
> When the X session is hanging, after I've logged out, I find that
> /etc/init.d/xdm stop
> fails, claiming that the xdm.pid file doesn't exist, even though ps
> reports that the xdm process is still running.
>
> I notice that xmd has two child processes:
>
> USER PID PPID SZ VSZ RSZ NI CMD
> root 17331 1 1399 5596 940 0 /usr/bin/xdm
> root 20618 17331 6763 27052 15008 0 /usr/bin/X :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0-chlHyX
> root 20622 17331 2104 8416 5236 0 -:0
>
> When logging out has hung the X session, killing the last (which has a
> symlink to /usr/bin/xdm as its /proc/20622/exe) causes xdm to exit;
> whereas killing the /usr/bin/X process persuades the xdm process to
> start a new X login prompt, which works as usual.
>
> Eddy.
>
Sorry for the delay, in the mean time did this get fixed, in squeeze,
testing or unstable ?
(Also I guess this could be reassigned to xdm, but let's wait to see if
it's fixed)
Best Regards,
--
Julien Viard de Galbert <julien@vdg.blogsite.org>
http://silicone.homelinux.org/ <julien@silicone.homelinux.org>
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