Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76192
X restarts when switching to text console
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: System: Dell Optiplex GX150 with Intel 815 Video Card and Clone PC When you switch from your graphical X display to a text console using eg Ctrl alt F1 or F2 , ... the text console appears and X restarts. Resulting in a lost workspace and a new GDM login screen. Tested and experienced this bug on 3 systems. Bug occurs every time Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Login to X 2.Press Ctrl Alt F1 to switch to text console 3.YOu will see the screen flickering and will notice that X is back at gdm login prompt when going back to X display ( ctrl alt f7 ) Actual Results: X restarted Expected Results: X should stay up :-) Additional info:
What is Clone PC? Please attach using the link below, your X server log, your X config file, your /var/log/messages from after a crash/problem, and the output of the following commands: cat /proc/version lspci -vn lspci -v rpm -qa | sort lsmod
I am also experiencing this problem. This issue seems to be a duplicate of bug 75672.
Closing bug as WONTFIX due to lack of activity and/or response to providing requested information. Please feel free to answer the questions above, and supply the requested info, then reopen if this issue is still relevant and important to you.