[848] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: White Screen/Zephyer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (svalente@MIT.EDU)
Mon Dec 12 20:56:58 1994
From: svalente@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 94 20:56:48 -0500
To: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1260] in linux-help"
Erik writes (on linux-help):
This is a known bug in the combination of XFree86 3.1 and Athena dm
which is caused by Athena dm restarting the server too quickly.
I have the inittab entry:
x1:4:respawn:/etc/athena/startdm
and where /etc/athena/startdm is <a shell script>.
Since I've actually since this in use (it's used on Limekiller), I
don't like it. I depend on the command "telinit 5" to shut down and
keep down the X server. Using this script, "telinit 5" kills the
script, but X keeps running, since X wasn't started by init.
I can think of two solutions to this problem:
a) Make the shell script trap the TERM signal and kill the X server
when it gets it.
b) Fix dm.c so that it sleeps for a couple of seconds in the
appropriate places, so that it doesn't have to be run through a shell
script.
The second seems like a much better solution, and I'll do it when I
get around to it.
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
