On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Keith Kaple wrote:
> Bummer, but I think if you get rid of .dtprofile and use .xinitrc with a lone xterm:
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> #!/bin/sh
> xterm
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> it would work...
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> avoid backgrounding (xterm &)..
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Yes, the only thing I did in the failsafe terminal was to run fvwm2
(without "&")
Then I minimised it and logged out as usual using the menu and ran exit at
the terminal.
> The grey screen is an indication that some process is keeping X active (is mouse still active?).
Yes, mouse is still active. If that's the case, it's none of my processes
(tried a ps -u, while logged on to the machine with ssh, only a bash...)
So this leaves the Xserver and perhaps some deamons..
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> So it isn't an fvwm problem, just an X/login environment problem.
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> What do you have to do, power cycle the sunray?
Power cycle doesn't help.
Only root can restore it to a working state (AFAIK).
//Marcus
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> On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 06:00:37PM +0100, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
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> > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Keith Kaple wrote:
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> > > I'm having no problem for about a year now, my sessions run like this:
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> > > starting:
> > > login using failsafe mode
> > > run fvwm in the naked xterm
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> > I tried this also.
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> > > exiting:
> > > exit fvwm via the quit function
> > > type exit in the naked xterm
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> > But now at one time, when I quit fvwm, it went well and the terminal
> > (actaully a dtterm) was left undecorated. But when I exited the dtterm (by
> > exit in the shell) the screen went gray. (I now call this "The Gray Screen
> > of Death)..
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> > So my conclusion is that it's only possible to use CDE on SunRays...
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> > //Marcus
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