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Re: x and virtual consoles

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On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 21:01:57 +0100
Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> For years I would happily ctrl-alt-f<1-6> for an additional x.org 
> session by running 'startx' and another window manager. Until now-ish.
> 
> The way to reproduce the problem is as follows:
> 
>   1. log in via lightdm/gdm
>   2. switch to a text console
>   3. run startx and use the window manager for a moment or two
>   4. switch back to first session
> 
> At this point you should be presented with the default login screen 
> after the x session crashed.
> 
> What I have observed is that x sessions started from a text console
> can cooperate with each other, it seems limited to lightdm/gdm logins
> only.
> 
> Something happened between jobs which meant I didn't need to run
> several user accounts at once. It may have been introduced during
> Jessie or Stretch.
> 
> Am I alone, or do other people have this issue also? Am I doing multi 
> GUI wrong, is there a modern way to do this that has slipped past me 
> without noticing?
> 

Indeed the problem seems reproducible for debian Stretch with sddm display manager.
The only logs appearing are from KDE applications (nothing in X11 logs):
```
Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.kde.kpasswdserver[958]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.kde.kuiserver[958]: kuiserver: Fatal IO error: client killed
Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.a11y.atspi.Registry[1251]: XIO:  fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"
Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.kde.kglobalaccel[958]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.a11y.atspi.Registry[1251]:       after 947 requests (947 known processed) with 0 events remaining.
Aug  4 22:40:41 buldozer org.kde.KScreen[958]: The X11 connection broke (error 1). Did the X11 server die?
```

Unfortunately my PC even worse gets stuck after that so I cant really tell if X11 is running.
I hadn't used multiple x sessions for sometime (after I got used to multiple desktops) but this seems an issue. 

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x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-04 22:10 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 00:10 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles nektarios <nektarios@mail.nektarioskatakis.xyz> - 2019-08-05 00:10 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 00:40 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-05 08:30 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-08-05 02:10 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Ed Neville <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-05 08:30 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-05 12:00 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-05 23:00 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-05 13:20 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-05 23:00 +0200
      Re: x and virtual consoles David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-06 00:10 +0200
        Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-06 08:20 +0200
          Re: x and virtual consoles David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-08-06 16:20 +0200
      Re: x and virtual consoles Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 08:10 +0200
        Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-06 08:20 +0200
          Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-06 09:40 +0200
            Re: x and virtual consoles deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-06 14:50 +0200
              Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-06 15:30 +0200
                Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-06 15:50 +0200
                Re: x and virtual consoles Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-06 16:40 +0200
                Re: x and virtual consoles Ed Neville <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-06 21:00 +0200
            Re: x and virtual consoles Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2019-09-10 08:40 +0200
  Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-05 13:40 +0200
    Re: x and virtual consoles Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-08-05 17:20 +0200
      Re: x and virtual consoles Ed <ed-debian@s5h.net> - 2019-08-05 19:20 +0200
      Re: x and virtual consoles Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-08-05 20:30 +0200

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