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nyp

Member

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 4

Freeze when exiting Fluxbox or restarting Xorg

Hi!

I'm using SLiM and Fluxbox. When starting up everything's fine. SLiM shows up and I can log in.
If I want to quit Fluxbox SLiM should show up again but instead my system locks up and has to be powered down roughly.
Same thing happens if I try to restart Xorg via Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

My inittab is:

#
# /etc/inittab
#

#  Runlevels:
#    0    Halt
#    1(S)    Single-user
#    2    Not used
#    3    Multi-user
#    4    Not used
#    5    X11
#    6    Reboot

## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
#id:5:initdefault:

rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p

# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/6 linux

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# Example lines for starting a login manager
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

# End of file

Do you know what could cause that problem and how to fix it?

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 792

Re: Freeze when exiting Fluxbox or restarting Xorg

Hi!

Hi!

I'm using SLiM and Fluxbox. When starting up everything's fine. SLiM shows up and I can log in.
If I want to quit Fluxbox SLiM should show up again but instead my system locks up and has to be powered down roughly.
Same thing happens if I try to restart Xorg via Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

My inittab is:

[snip]
## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
#id:5:initdefault:
[snip more]

Do you know what could cause that problem and how to fix it?

I don't know if this will fix your problem, but you need to modify the default run-level.  Comment out the id:3 line and uncomment the id:5 line.

nyp

Member

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 4

Re: Freeze when exiting Fluxbox or restarting Xorg

Thanks for your reply.
I did as you said. Didn't solve the problem BUT at least X doesn't freeze anymore. I do get a console now.
Switching back with Ctr+Alt+F7 I see a message: "INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes".
Looks like X crashes again and again until INIT stops it and displays the message from above.

tigrmesh

IRC Op

From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 792

Re: Freeze when exiting Fluxbox or restarting Xorg

It looks like it's not a problem.  See tpowa's post in this thread:  http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36901.

nyp

Member

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 4

Re: Freeze when exiting Fluxbox or restarting Xorg

I don't have that line in my inittab.
Still SLiM doesn't show up as expected.