[Bug 432521] Re: kdm does not restart X server (that crashed on logout)

[Achim Bohnet]

Hi Jonathan, 
that a common prejudice: kdm runs fine without X and even without a gfx card, e.g. on a mulituser server, kdm only announces the login service via XDMCP ;)

Back to topic: Current behaviour is broken: in the good-old-days, before
alt-ctrl-del was disbled, kdm restarted the Xserver when it was killed
(or crashed).   In case of a broken Xserver kdm tried 3 times to start
the Xsever, then gave up [today AFAIK a VESA Xserver will now be started
instead?].

As further 'prove' of broken behaviour: /etc/init.d/kdm reload starts an
Xserver then shows the login screen.   Bugfree behaviour would be to
restart X without a kick into the kdms a** via the reload command ;)

Achim

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kdm does not restart X server (that crashed on logout)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432521
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