[gdm-list] Oops. My mistake, my apology - AlwaysRestartServer does work

[Yitzhak Bar Geva <yitzhakbg yahoo com>]

I profusely apologize. I had not performed gdm-restart
before running my little test.
Hitting <ctrl><alt><backspace> (obviously) resets the
X server. Logout does not with
AlwaysRestartServer=false.
However, we're still stuck with our X server failures.
Any help is more than welcome.
Yitzhak

--- Yitzhak Bar Geva <yitzhakbg yahoo com> wrote:

> I just performed a simple test:
> AlwaysRestartServer=false
> I brought up gdm, looked at the pid of the X server
> and then logged out. Checking the pid after logout
> should a new pid.
> I assume therefore that gdm is ignoring the value of
> AlwaysRestartServer and resetting the X server no
> matter what.
> Can anyone advise? We need to guarantee that the X
> server does not(!) restart after logout.
> Yitzhak
> 
> --- Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You might try using the AlwaysRestartServer=true
> > value in the gdm.conf
> > file which ensures that GDM always restarts the
> > Xserver for each user
> > session.  By default it re-uses the existing
> > Xserver, which is faster, but
> > can cause problems if your Xserver tends to
> runaway
> > or leak memory.
> > Using this may minimize the problems you are
> seeing.
> > 
> > The problem with restarting the Xserver when it
> > starts misbehaving is
> > that you effectively logout the user without
> > warning, which might not
> > be very acceptable.  Though this might be better
> > than having the whole
> > machine become unusable because one Xserver is
> > eating all the CPU.
> > Simply killing the user's session (such as
> > gnome-session if using GNOME)
> > should restart the login screen for a given
> display.
> >  If AlwaysRestartServer
> > is true, this will cause GDM to also restart an
> > Xserver.
> > 
> > Also, you can setup your Xserver so
> > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will restart
> > the Xserver.  Educating your users to use this
> > feature when X seems to
> > freeze might be useful.  Though if the keyboard is
> > really frozen it might
> > not accept the keystroke.
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> > > We run multiple local X servers under gdm, each
> > with its own screen, 
> > > keyboard and mouse. We request advice on how to
> > control "runaway" X 
> > > servers. This could be a result of a user
> logging
> > out and the X server 
> > > couldn't restart due to a POST or other problem.
> > Another phenomenon is 
> > > the the server eats up 99% cpu with the result
> > that it's keyboard and 
> > > mouse input are frozen.
> > > Question: How could we launch the X servers in a
> > script which would 
> > > monitor their progress and automatically restart
> > them in the event of 
> > > such a problem. Other angles of attack would be
> > warmly welcomed. It is 
> > > imperative that we have ome automatic mechanism
> > until Nvidia solve some 
> > > problems with their boards, because in the
> > meanwhile this causes 
> > > children in the classroom much frustration.
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