Bug 132079

Summary:	X doesn't crash gracefully
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers <x11>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Xorg.0.log

Description Caleb Cushing 2006-05-02 17:49:03 UTC

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

Comment 1 Caleb Cushing 2006-05-02 17:49:58 UTC

Created attachment 86035 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Comment 2 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-03 00:15:10 UTC

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.

Comment 3 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-03 00:17:00 UTC

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.

Comment 4 Caleb Cushing 2006-05-03 00:25:18 UTC

(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.