Re: [gdm-list] FailsafeXServer - gdm keeps restarting X

[Bryce Harrington <bryce bryceharrington org>]

I've tried it both with and without the '&' without any change of
effect.  I left it in since the example you pointed to had one but I
think it is unnecessary.

Bryce

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:43:56PM -0500, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Bryce:
> 
> Do you need to run the xserver in the background by adding "&" to the
> end, or does xinit return immediately?
> 
> Brian
> 
> 
> >Thanks, this feels like a step in the right direction, but even when
> >issuing the kill -USR1 $PPID it is still trying to restart the server.
> >Below is the failsafeXServer script I'm using; are you able to see the
> >same issue I do when running this?
> >
> >Bryce
> >
> >## failsafeXServer=failsafeExample
> >#!/bin/bash
> >
> >client="/usr/bin/zenity"
> >clientargs="--warning --text HelloWorld "
> >server=/usr/bin/X
> >serverargs="$*"
> >if [ -z $serverargs ]; then
> >    serverargs=":0"
> >fi
> >serverargs="${serverargs} -br -once -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf.failsafe"
> >
> >xinit $client $clientargs -- $server $serverargs &
> >
> >sleep 5
> >
> >kill -USR1 $PPID
> >
> >
>