Bug#812791: xserver-xorg-core: Kills DM controlled session when opening X from another tty

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 16:51:27 +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:

> Package: xserver-xorg-core
> Version: 2:1.17.3-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainers,
> 
> I am having a strange problem apparently starting with 2:1.17.2-3.
> 
> I often have a display-manager controlled X session for one user and open
> another X session in a free tty for a different user with startx.
> 
> This has been working for a long time. However, after a recent testing
> upgrade including xserver-xorg-core 2:1.17.2-3 this started to fail
> (failure happened before in a sid box, but there were more upgrades to
> look when trying to locate which change might be responsible).
> 
> When I have a display-mamager controlled X session and, without leaving the
> session, switch to a free tty, login as another user and start an X session
> with startx original X session gets killed and I am sent to DM greeter.
> 
Please provide the log from both X processes.

Thanks,
Julien