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bhadotia

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From: Karnal, India

Registered: 2008-12-09

Posts: 87

[SOLVED]KDM doesn't respawn after logout!

There is a similar post here but that is marked solved and is a little different, so I am creating a new topic.

This is a fresh install with KDE4.3 (from the latest 2009.8 image). But I'm experiencing problem with kdm not respawning after logout.
My inittab is the defeault with just the lines commented( out) to enable run level 5 and kdm respawn:

## 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 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 tty6 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:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

# End of file

Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[]EDIT: Added link to the similar topic.

Last edited by bhadotia (2012-02-16 00:50:28)

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Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

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Re: [SOLVED]KDM doesn't respawn after logout!

This sounds like a buggy graphics driver. Try to put "TerminateServer=true" into /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc to force a restart of the x server on logout.

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mechmg93

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From: Greece

Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 197

Re: [SOLVED]KDM doesn't respawn after logout!

This sounds like a buggy graphics driver. Try to put "TerminateServer=true" into /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc to force a restart of the x server on logout.

i also had to do this in my laptop arch installation using intel driver(both stable and git) and it seems that it is a nice temporary solution.

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bhadotia

Member

From: Karnal, India

Registered: 2008-12-09

Posts: 87

Re: [SOLVED]KDM doesn't respawn after logout!

This sounds like a buggy graphics driver. Try to put "TerminateServer=true" into /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc to force a restart of the x server on logout.

Thanks. So shouldn't someone file a bug report.

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