Hello!
I’m having this nasty problem: trying to log out of any X session will either do nothing or break the whole system.
For example, logging out from XFCE will leave me with an un-refreshed display and a functional mouse cursor. If I switch to TTY1 and back, the text will stay in place instead of the desktop, and the cursor will float above it.
Another example, logging out from OpenBox will do the same thing, and from LXDE it will do nothing.
I tried the xfce4-session-logout and equivalent commands but they have the same effects.
If I go to a TTY after doing this and try to kill X or all user-started processes, sometimes it will work, at other times the whole system freezes.
Please help with this, I’m unable to logout unless I completely reboot the system.
Nothing relevant showed up on google about this issue either (there were some old posts about the logout dialog box not being displayed, but it’s not my case)
Hi,
This is my gfx card:
05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Redwood XT [Radeon HD 5670/5690/5730]
and I’m using the standard drivers that come with openSuse.
I don’t think it’s the driver, since the display works fine - the mouse can be moved around, except there’s nothing being drawn on the screen, closing the X session gets stuck somewhere before getting me back to the graphical login screen.
If I CTRL+ALT+BKSP twice X will go down, but then trying to restart it won’t work, I went to TTY1 and did sudo init 3, sudo init 4, sudo init 5, neither of these worked, they all got stuck, I had to CTRL+C them and then reboot.
This (logging out) used to work fine before, I don’t know if its related to upgrading from 12.3 to 13.2, because I haven’t used it in a while
I don’t think it’s the driver, since the display works fine - the mouse can be moved around, except there’s nothing being drawn on the screen, closing the X session gets stuck somewhere before getting me back to the graphical login screen.
It might be a problem with switching VTs (“virtual terminals”).
It might also be a problem with the display manager you use (in combination to the graphics driver and your particular chipset maybe, I doubt there’s a general problem otherwise we would probably have other reports about such issues already)
Which one are you using?
You could try a different one, this is to be set in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager (the one you set should be installed first of course, xdm is a fallback that’s installed by default).
I also believe it’s not a general issue, like you indicated, it must be something related to bad configuration on my side. I’m trying to figure out what and fix it. I’ll try with xdm and see what I get.
Cheers!
OK, I changed the display manager from “lxdm” to “xdm” and now log out works fine, I’m being returned to the graphical login screen.
However, “shut down” and “restart” don’t work now. They simply return me to the login screen.
This happens with both “xdm” and “lightdm”. lightdm looks better and offers a user list & session list.
I want to return to lxdm and fix the log out problem or fix the shutdown/restart problem and keep lightdm.
