chris, this actually sounds like a good idea! I've had the same problem as John, ever since I first tried just using the >console. I usually waited for a few minutes (but I'm sure not more than 5) and just forced a restart after getting tired of watchin' that stupid beachball all the time.... (by the way: who came up with such a silly logo? what drugs might he/she have been on?) but the log file sounds like the best way to get any usable results!
cheers alex On Sonntag, April 21, 2002, at 10:43 Uhr, Chris Devers wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
