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Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions

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On 10/23/2017 10:40 PM, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 2:51 PM, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> On 2017-10-23 at 16:21, Robert Arkiletian wrote:
>>
>>> Just tried this on a different box running Fedora 25 (64) and it
>>> works perfectly, no problem. So I think this is a Debian bug.
>>> Although on Fedora I'm not starting the first X session with startx,
>>> I can start another X session on tty2 with startx and switch to tty3,
>>> log in and log out without issue.
>>
>> Per the description in bug 791342 (linked to from 858073 as being the
>> same issue), "[s]tarting the server on tty[2-6] does not generally
>> appear to lead to the behaviour described above". So I don't think this
>> is enough of a test to conclude that Fedora does not exhibit the same
>> behaviour.
>>
> 
> My mistake. Confirmed the same behavior on the Debian Stretch box. If
> I don't use tty1 everything is fine. I can use tty2 (running X) and
> tty3 logging in and out switching back and forth, no issues. What an
> odd bug. Well at least I have a workaround now. I will simply avoid
> using tty1.


When I'm trying to work in ttys I avoid tty1 the system will output data 
there, seems to be logging stuff, firewall, etc., so I use tty2, etc. 
and then I'm not bothered by the system background noise.
-- 
Jimmy Johnson

Debian Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5
Registered Linux User #380263

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X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Robert Arkiletian <robark@gmail.com> - 2017-10-18 18:20 +0200
  Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-10-19 10:10 +0200
    Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-10-19 14:40 +0200
      Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Robert Arkiletian <robark@gmail.com> - 2017-10-22 18:20 +0200
        Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Robert Arkiletian <robark@gmail.com> - 2017-10-22 18:50 +0200
          Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-10-23 18:40 +0200
            Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Robert Arkiletian <robark@gmail.com> - 2017-10-23 19:30 +0200
              Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Robert Arkiletian <robark@gmail.com> - 2017-10-23 22:30 +0200
                Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-10-24 00:00 +0200
                Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Robert Arkiletian <robark@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 07:50 +0200
                Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-10-24 13:40 +0200
                Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-10-24 14:20 +0200
                Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-10-24 14:40 +0200
                Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-24 18:20 +0200
                Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2017-10-25 04:40 +0200
                Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Robert Arkiletian <robark@gmail.com> - 2017-10-25 19:30 +0200
                Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-10-26 00:40 +0200
                Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-10-24 21:40 +0200
  Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-10-19 17:40 +0200
    Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-19 22:10 +0200
      Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-10-20 00:00 +0200
        Re: X crashes when closing one of two running X sessions David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-10-20 00:20 +0200

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