Re: X crashing on startup

[Joshua Branson]

Almudena Garcia <liberamenso10000@gmail.com> writes:

> I tried a simple experiment, adding setuid to xinit file, with
>
> chmod u+s /usr/bin/xinit
>
> After do this, I stopped xdm and execute startx to run the DE directly. 
>
> And now Xorg finish correctly when I logout!! :-)

Congrats!!!  Haha.  Are you running the Hurd in a vm?  I think I've read
online somewhere that the Hurd can run X fairly reliably, if the Linux
host OS runs the X server, and the Hurd connects to the server as the
client.

If you decide to give this unsolicited advice a try, would you mind
reporting back how it works?

>
> 2018-06-12 0:14 GMT+02:00 Almudena Garcia <liberamenso10000@gmail.com>:
>
>  It's correct :)
>
>  But my solution cause another problem: If I want to return to tty, I have to 
> stop the xdm service from the same DE, which It's a bit bizarre ;)
>
>  2018-06-12 0:10 GMT+02:00 Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>:
>
>  Almudena Garcia, le mar. 12 juin 2018 00:08:18 +0200, a ecrit:
>  > I've just installed xdm. If I start the DE session from this, the logout
>  > returns correctly to the login screen
>
>  Yes, because the X server does not need to be killed in that case :)
>
>  Samuel