[10439] in Athena Bugs
[ckclark@Athena.MIT.EDU: rsaix 7.5B: config_console in .xsession kills X server]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucien Van Elsen)
Sun Apr 11 17:26:29 1993
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1993 17:26:19 -0400
From: lucien@watson.ibm.com (Lucien Van Elsen)
To: ckclark@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU, mar@Athena.MIT.EDU, bug-rios@Athena.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: <9304111853.AA24735@paris.MIT.EDU> (epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU)
/Doesn't sound like a bug at all, but just a (documented) difference between
the R3 and R4 X servers. Unlike R3 servers, R4 servers should reset
themselves when the last open connection is closed. At the point when
you run config_console, the console is the only thing that has an active X
connection open- config_console causes the console to close its display and
exit, so it can be restarted by dm. I believe this is what is causing the
X server restart you saw. You may want to put a call to "xsleep" (an
application whose sole purpose in life is to keep a connection open to the X
server for a given amount of time, and then die) before your
config_console to ensure the number of connections to the X server doesn't
drop to zero and see if this fixes it.
-Lucien
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