Sam Spastic Posted May 13, 2010 Report Share Posted May 13, 2010 The system hangs whenever I or any user logs off. What script should I be looking at to fix this. I couldn't find .xinitrc like I would use on my Mac to start X-Free86 Gnome and Enlightenmant. But I assume it is a similar problem to what I would get if an app was called without exec and it didn't get killed. Anyway when I log out it looks like everything goes away and I get a blank screeen. I do not see the login script running (the echo to the terminal is not there). Thanks for any help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted May 15, 2010 Report Share Posted May 15, 2010 What are you using as display manager? KDM, GDM or something else? Is the display manager started via inittab, or it's running as a daemon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Spastic Posted May 15, 2010 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2010 I assume since I normally login to Gnome that its running GDM. But I really don't know. Running Metacity wm. When this started failing I switched to kde. There was no change to the logoff so I went back to Gnome. I have also tried a shutdown from the menu. The display half crashed. Top half was the login theme background and the bottom half was white. The script finished and shut down the computer tho I couldn't see the script output. I will continue to use the menu shutdown as it seems to not require any repair of the hard drive at boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted May 16, 2010 Report Share Posted May 16, 2010 To see which display manager you're using, go to: System - Administration - Configure your computer - then enter your root password and press enter. Choose Boot - Setup display manager. There you can see which manager you're using. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted May 16, 2010 Report Share Posted May 16, 2010 Or you could just open a terminal and do ps -e | egrep 'kdm|gdm|xdm' to see the display manager. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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