Re: gettytab and autologin

[Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>]

Hello,

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:14:32AM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> 2008/4/10, Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost>:
> > On Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 10:10:30PM +0200, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
[..]
> >  > 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.

[further details omitted here.]
> >  >
> >  > 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.
> 
> 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)

Hm, what happens if you disable console in /etc/gettytab, and enable
it on ttyE0 instead?

And I'd still like to know what happens when you use a different window
manager.

        -is