On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, John San wrote: > When logged in as >console, X11 will not exit, ie: "startx" will start > the X11 session, logging out will 'hang' - the X11 screens will close, > but on a blank graphics background, the cursor will change to the > "spinning multi-color CD" and will sit there forever.
How long is forever? I've had X11 problems kinda similar to this, and logouts would take a long time to get back to a prompt -- logout times on the order of five minutes or so. Will it really hang indefinitely, or do you just see this for a couple of minutes? If you can ssh in from another machine, can you bring up process listings to see what's going on? In my case, if I got bored waiting I'd go over to my fiance's Win98 box and kill off an X related processes of mine that I saw in a "ps ax | grep chris". Ugly, and surely not the right way to fix things, but it worked. Are you sure you didn't see any FAQs about X11 logout timeouts? I thought there was something, but I'm not sure. Another idea would be to pipe the whole X session to a log file for later autopsies. Do a "startx |& tee ~/startx.log", then log in & immediately try to get back out. If you can get to that log file (remotely, or from another machine, or even from an xterm while X is running) you might be able to see something that explains where the problem is coming from. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
