[gentoo-catalyst] Re: [PATCH] livecd-bashrc: Avoid a startx race by restricting to tty1

[W. Trevor King]

On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 06:49:42PM -0800, Matt Turner wrote:
> > -               if [ -e /etc/startx ]
> > +               if [ -e /etc/startx ] && [ "$(tty)" == /dev/tty1 ]
>
> Seems reasonable, but I don't really know how any of this works. Have
> you experienced the problem you describe? I.e., multiple X servers
> starting.

I had one X server starting, but also crashed X servers (do to
.Xauthority conflicts or something, I didn't write down the message)
in other ttys.  Also, if another tty starts the X server, it's not
clear to me that the user will actually end up in X.  The user may end
up on tty1 and have to Alt-F7 into X, which is not intuitive ;).

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