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ukognos

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Registered: 2008-07-18

Posts: 41

X starts twice

hello everyone,

i've following challenge to solve

if i start x it starts always two times, but one of these two processes is of no use.

here's a ps -ef output after starting X with startx:

ape       4786  4778  0 12:48 tty1     00:00:00 -bash
ape       5446  4786  0 12:56 tty1     00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx
ape       5462  5446  0 12:56 tty1     00:00:00 xinit /home/ape/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc
root      5463  5462  3 12:56 tty4     00:00:10 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp
root      5469  5463  0 12:56 tty4     00:00:00 /usr/bin/X -nolisten tcp
ape       5472  5462  0 12:56 tty1     00:00:00 /usr/bin/openbox
ape       5474  5472  0 12:56 tty1     00:00:00 /usr/bin/python -OO /usr/bin/pypanel
ape       5476     1  0 12:56 tty1     00:00:01 conky -d

it seems that X is starting another X process as child process but i have no clue why.
the second X process has no child processes so it's useless and it takes as much memory as the first process.

and i think it's not a cause of openbox because it doesn't matter if i startx X as root or slim, there is always the same problem.

BTW: Im using xorg-server 1.4.2-2

so long
ukognos

Last edited by ukognos (2008-09-07 11:11:49)

carlocci

Member

From: Padova - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-12

Posts: 368

Re: X starts twice

ati, well known bug, no fix

ukognos

Member

Registered: 2008-07-18

Posts: 41

Re: X starts twice

alright, thanks for your answer
i'm really looking forward to xorg-server 1.5 and os-radeon driver + 3d