Logout a session causes X-Window changes from VT7 to VT9

[Ricardo Pérez López]

Binary package hint: gdm

Steps to reproduce:

0. The GDM login screen appears. Ctrl-Alt-F1 goes you into a console terminal. With Ctrl-Alt-F7 you go back to X-Window.
1. Log into a GNOME session.
2. Log out the session, to go back to GDM.
3. The GDM login screen appears again.

Expected behavior:

The X-Window remains in virtual terminal #7 (Ctrl-Alt-F7)

Actual behavior:

The X-Window changes to virtual terminal #9 (Ctrl-Alt-F9)

[Siegfried Gevatter (rainct)]

I can confirm this with 1 computer.

[Nicolas M (nicolas-martin-gmail)]

I Confirm the bug, as I just migrated from Feisty to Gutsy a couple of days ago.

Logout from the Gnome session causes:
- gdm to restart (Nvidia logo reappears, lots of display flickering)
- the new X windows session to be attached to VT9 instead of initial VT7.

Note: other login/logout will still cause gdm to restart, but the VT stays stuck to VT9.

In /var/log/Xorg.0.log, I can read this:
-----------------------------------------
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,

.../... then later in file:

(II) Module pcidata: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 1.2
(++) using VT number 9

(II) PCI: PCI scan (all values are in hex)

.../... then rest of the file.
-----------------------------------------

So: Would it be a command line script somewhere that requests use of VT9 instead of VT7 ?

[Giorgio Vazzana (mywing)]

When I upgraded from Feisty to Gutsy two days ago, I had the same problem. Looking at .xsession-errors I found the following error:

1198440598.912730 Session manager: gsm-remote-desktop.c:107: remote desktop server died, restarting
1198440598.916107 Session manager: gsm-remote-desktop.c:107: remote desktop server died, restarting
1198440608.837906 Session manager: gsm-remote-desktop.c:130: activation of OAFIID:GNOME_RemoteDesktopServer failed: System exception: IDL:omg.org/CORBA/COMM_FAILURE:1.0

This led me to think it was something related with remote desktop. So I fixed the problem by disabling it (the server name is "vino-server"). To do so, run from a terminal "vino-preferences" and disable remote desktop. Now reboot and it should work. This seems to fix bug #157622 too. I hope this helps.

P.S.: I think there might be a bug in vino or in the gnome-session package (since gsm-remote-desktop.c belongs to that package), so this is just a quick fix.

[Nicolas M (nicolas-martin-gmail)]

Just tried your tip but it does not work for me.

The remote server was already stopped.

Enabling or disabling it has no effect, the X server always restarts at logout, and always uses VT9 instead of VT7.

[Giorgio Vazzana (mywing)]

Oh, sorry Nicolas, you're right. I just checked again and I still have the problem about VT9, on two different machines (amd64 and i386) running gutsy. But I've noticed that, even if Xorg uses VT9 from the second login on, it works fine for me.

Anyway, that procedure resolved the problem with the remote desktop, so I think I should file a bug report on vino.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Could somebody try if that's still an issue in karmic?

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.