Multiple X Servers?!?!?!?

[Anton Markov]

Paul King wrote:
> Oops! I am not sure what made my attachment become a separate email.
> 
> Apologies if all you saw was my X log output and nothing else. It was meant 
> mainly for Robert (and anyone else) who might have been curious as to what is 
> causing multiple X instances to be invoked on my machine.

The X server log is probably for only _one_ of the sessions (you should 
see several logs like '/var/log/XFree86.#.log' where # is '0' and up).

 From your origional message I take it that you run gdm, but this should 
work for kdm and xdm too:

Try switching to a console, logging in as root, and stoping then 
starting the gdm server with '/etc/init.d/gdm restart'. If it is causing 
multiple instances to start up, that script ('/etc/init.d/gdm') is 
probably the culprit. You should try simply running 'gdm' as root and 
see if it works normally.

If some gdm script is the culprit, try 'dpkg-reconfigure gdm', and if 
that doesn't help, 'dpkg -P gdm; apt-get install gdm', which will 
reinstall gdm and re-create all the configuration files / scripts. (You 
may want to back up '/etc/gdm' first). I am not sure if there is a more 
"proper" way to do this in Debian.

Using 'startx' directly works fine, right?

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