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MetalheadGautham

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From: Bangalore, India

Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 143

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KDM: Logging off puts me in console mode

I have a weird problem with KDM.

Well, I run KDM from inittab using init 5. There is not conflicting entry of KDM inside rc.conf to cause an issue I had read about in this forum.

Now, ctrl+alt+backspace shortcut is enabled to restart X. When I do it, X restarts normally the way it should and I am back in KDM window.

But each time I use inbuilt logoff function in Xfce4.6 or KDE 4.3, I end up in console mode. Apparently I am still in init 5, because once I manually login and do a

sudo init 5

Nothing happens. But if I do

sudo init 3

I get a switching message.

After that I do a

sudo init 5 && exit

So that I can get back to login manager window.

Now, why does this happen ? I hate having to manually restart the login manager each time I use logout to switch to another user.

And yeah, is there any theme in KDM which shows a list of users I can login as ?

How do I ensure that only one instance of a user is logged in at a given moment and if I lock screen and go back to menu and login again, I go back to the same instance ?

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MetalheadGautham

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From: Bangalore, India

Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 143

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Re: KDM: Logging off puts me in console mode

bump

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,774

Re: KDM: Logging off puts me in console mode

Are you, by chance, using KMS with Intel Graphics?  If so, check your /var/log/Xorg.0.log for signs that Xorg crashed when you logged out.

If you find such evidence, you might try (As a work around):

edit /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and find the block labeled :

[X-:*-Core]

and add a line that reads:

TerminateServer=true

This forces KDM to restart the Xorg server after you log out.  I think the original purpose of this option was to force the clean up of memory leaks, but it works well for this purpose.

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MetalheadGautham

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From: Bangalore, India

Registered: 2008-07-27

Posts: 143

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Re: KDM: Logging off puts me in console mode

I am not using KMS.

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