X11 hangs on exit?

Alexander Sack pisymbol at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 17:19:42 UTC 2011


On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Alexander Sack <pisymbol at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have a fairly new machine that I have installed both
> 7.2-amd64-RELEASE and well as 7.4-amd64-RELEASE.  I have used the "nv"
> driver as well as the "vesa" driver.  In both cases, Xorg comes up and
> everything appears to be working except when I exit my session, it
> just hangs (I stil see my xterm under xsm and I can still type on the
> xterm).
>
> There are NO error messages in Xorg.0.log (bummer) nor anything in
> /var/log/messages.  I have tried to disable "dri" but it still just
> hangs (I did this on a whim).
>
> Has anyone seen this before?
>
> A Google search shows that other folks have seen this but with no luck
> solving it.  I wish I had more information to give.  The xorg file I
> am using is from a simple Xorg -configure operation (the only change I
> made for xorg-7.4 on 7.2-amd6-RELEASE was to add Option
> "AddAutoDevices" "false" to make my mouse work, everything else is the
> default config).
>

In case anyone is wondering, gnome2 just works while xdm/xsm fail
miserably on 7.2-RELEASE.  Again, I really don't know why.

-aps


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