I used to get a blue screen saying X has failed to start blah blah blah. when I had something Wrong in the xorg.conf or when a device like my mouse was missing. Now it hangs on a blank screen. I can't do anything from that point because my mouse and keyboard are locked. this problem might just be with xdm I'm not sure. I haven't spent much time trying to figure it out because having to do a hard reset is not good, and trying to crash X is not ideal. but if it's going to crash it should do so without locking up my computer. x11-apps/xdm-1.0.4 x11-base/xorg-server-1.0.2-r3 virtual/x11-7.0-r2 x11-base/xorg-x11-7.0-r1
Created attachment 86035 [details] Xorg.0.log
That all depends on where and how it crashes. This is an upstream bug -- please file at bugs.freedesktop.org in the xorg product, then post the URL here.
Oh -- please file the bug as your crash, not as the "ungraceful" thing. There aren't many options there. When X dies as it's fiddling around with your hardware, things are stuck the way they are.
(In reply to comment #3) > Oh -- please file the bug as your crash, not as the "ungraceful" thing. There > aren't many options there. When X dies as it's fiddling around with your > hardware, things are stuck the way they are. > a graceful crash would allow me to get back to a VT which is what it SHOULD do. an ungraceful one locks my system like windows does when it BSOD's. I'm supposed to get a curses screen asking if I want to view the log. I know because I've had problems starting X several times, under different experimental circumstances. I figured this was upstream but I always file here first. btw, the way it HANDLES the crash is THE BUG, not my misconfigured xorg.conf.
