On Thu 31 Jan 2019 at 12:56:59 -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > tty1 became special with the introduction of systemd. Do not use tty1 > for X. Instead use tty2 and/or tty3 and/or tty4 and/or tty5 and/or > tty6. Buster may have this fixed, as upstream has apparently fixed it > 3 months ago.
The behaviour on unstable is unchanged from stretch. To use tty1 for X, move ~/.bash_logout out of the way or alter it. That doesn't mean the origin of the bug doesn't involve systemd or X, but it removes the problem -- Brian