[PLUG] Logout Problem in Text Mode

Bill Thoen bthoen at gisnet.com
Mon Jul 28 16:13:19 UTC 2008


Thanks for the help with this, everyone. However, the problem seems to 
have fixed itself over the weekend. I can't really believe that, so I'll 
keep these suggestions for when it happens again, but darned if I can 
break it now. Pretty cool to have an OS that repairs itself!

Robert Citek wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Bill Thoen <bthoen at gisnet.com> wrote:
>   
>> The problem I'm having is if I login from the local terminal, when I log
>> out, the screen goes blank and I just see a single dash in the upper
>> left corner and that terminal window is now hung. I can use the next one
>> (Alt-F2) OK, but when I log out of that one, it hangs too.
>>     
>
> Sounds like a problem with respawning.  Unfortunately, I don't have
> FC9 installed.  However, this is what I tried using Ubuntu 8.04:
>
> - loged in to tty1 then loged out
> - loged in to tty2
> - typed 'ps faux | grep -w tty[1-2]'
>
> root     20801  0.0  0.0   6928  2604 tty2     Ss   11:24   0:00
> /bin/login --
> rwcitek  20832  0.0  0.0   5036  2404 tty2     S+   11:24   0:00  \_ -bash
> root     20822  0.0  0.0   1716   508 tty1     Ss+  11:24   0:00
> /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
>
> - typed 'grep -w tty[1-2] /var/log/syslog | tail'
>
> Jul 26 11:16:47 Ubuntu804 init: tty1 main process ended, respawning
> Jul 26 11:17:14 Ubuntu804 init: tty2 main process ended, respawning
> Jul 26 11:18:16 Ubuntu804 init: tty2 main process ended, respawning
> Jul 26 11:18:17 Ubuntu804 init: tty2 main process ended, respawning
> Jul 26 11:20:05 Ubuntu804 init: tty1 main process ended, respawning
> Jul 26 11:24:30 Ubuntu804 init: tty2 main process ended, respawning
> Jul 26 11:24:39 Ubuntu804 init: tty1 main process ended, respawning
>
>
> There may be a similar method in FC9.  I would suspect that if tty1 is
> not respawning it would show up in the process table and in the logs.
>
> Regards,
> Robert
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