Re: gettytab and autologin

["Zafer Aydogan" <zafer%aydogan.de@localhost>]

2008/4/10, Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>:
> On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:10:30PM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
>  > hello list,
>  >
>  > i've enabled autologin in gettytab which works well.
>  > When I'm automatically logged in as a user and start a WM (icewm) via
>  > startx and later logout to the shell, then the shell gets stuck. This
>  > does only happen if I'm autologged in as a user. With root everything
>  > works fine.
>  >
>  > I found out, that if I just su down to root and come back, I can also
>  > properly log out of icewm.
>  > It also suffices, if I just "login -f myusername" or "su myusername"
>  > and then startx and logout.
>  >
>  > Any ideas how to workaround or fix this ?
>
>
> Just to be sure it's not icewm specific: try a different window manager.
>  E.g., twm, please.
>
>
>         -is
>

My current workaround is to switch to another terminal, as this phenomenon
only happens on the console.
Autologin on other terminals are not affected. (e.g. ttyE1)

Zafer.