Bug 76192 – X restarts when switching to text console

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Bug 76192 - X restarts when switching to text console

Summary:	X restarts when switching to text console

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	XFree86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	high Severity high
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Assigned To:	Mike A. Harris
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2002-10-17 20:41 EDT by Tijl Dullers
Modified:	2005-10-31 17:00 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-12-17 16:09:24 EST
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Description Tijl Dullers 2002-10-17 20:41:06 EDT

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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 



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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:

Comment 1 Mike A. Harris 2002-10-18 18:27:05 EDT

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

Comment 2 Michael Wardle 2002-10-31 19:36:56 EST

I am also experiencing this problem.

This issue seems to be a duplicate of bug 75672.

Comment 3 Mike A. Harris 2002-12-17 16:09:24 EST

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.

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