On 8/28/17, Zenaan Harkness <zen...@freedbms.net> wrote: > I consistently get a deadlock of the XFCE window manager, immediately > after I logout of say Linux console 2, when e.g. XFCE is running on > console 1. > > Procedure to replicate: > > 1. login to console 1 > > 2. start xfce > > 3. switch to console 2 (e.g. CTRL+ALT+F2) > > 4. loging to console 2 > > 5. logout of console 2 (e.g. CTRL+D) > > > Notably, when I'm on console 2, either logged in or not, I can safely > use ALT+Left to go to console 1 and appears my XFCE desktop. > > Similarly using Ctrl+Alt+F1 > > So I'm guessing some sort of unhandled race condition, but I'm at a > loss as to how to debug this.
I may not be quite understanding, but I just played along from behind the lurk wall.... I had a BUNCH of shtuff open at that second. I didn't think things through clearly, i.e. if mine locked up, I would have lost some shtuff... As it was........... I got locked out... kinda sorta. I CTRL+ALT+F2.... logged in to where I was still in console. Typed a few "asdfasdfasdf" that obviously failed, and logged out. I..... CTRL+ALT+F1....... And there I sat at the login prompt......... As soon that happened, I had a memory recall of having been there, done there a couple months ago and never followed up on it. I didn't try logging in because part of that memory recall is that I might have lost some data on the last go-round with it. I THOUGHT that F1 was the first console, is it not? Out of pure *panic*, I went down the row..... F3, F4, F5...... Mystery solved: F7 is the new F1 in my case. I started to ask if that helps in your case, but it sounds like you're already able to use CTRL+ALT+F1 as expected so.... *?* Just thinking out loud.. :) Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with duct tape *
