Enter login manager and X respawn issue

Question

Wondering if anyone else has this. I have a login for myself and one for my wife and 'normal' people who don't want/know how to use a tiling WM and firefox-pentadacytl, and want to have a graphical login manager. SLiM caused too many hard crashes where I'd lose the keyboard. GDM and KDM have too much cruft and LXDM is even less stable. Enter looked good, but on logout from openbox (not ScrotWM), tty7 locks up and I'll get the "X respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes message" in my logs/tty1.
With SLiM it looks like this is an auth. file and/or xorg.conf error from what I've read. I've been relying on X to auto-config and don't have an xorg.conf.
Where do I want to start to work around this?
I'll post my initab and Xorg logs in a second or two.
Relevant inittab lines:
# Boot to console
#id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
id:5:initdefault:
rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p
# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -i -8 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 -s 38400 tty6 linux
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/enter >/dev/null 2>&1
Xorg.0.log:
Oct 23 15:53:35 thimkbrick init: Switching to runlevel: 5
...skipping...
Oct 29 19:14:00 thimkbrick dhcpcd[621]: wlan0: leased 192.168.5.11 for infinity
Oct 29 19:14:00 thimkbrick dhcpcd[621]: forked to background, child pid 645
Oct 29 19:18:12 thimkbrick init: Switching to runlevel: 5
Oct 29 19:18:12 thimkbrick enter: Starting X server. [...x7 more]
Oct 29 19:18:12 thimkbrick init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Oct 29 19:18:12 thimkbrick enter: Starting X server.
Oct 29 19:18:18 thimkbrick enter: Server timed out [...x8 more]
Oct 29 19:18:23 thimkbrick enter: Logging in user
Oct 29 19:23:13 thimkbrick enter: Starting X server. [...x8 more]
Oct 29 19:23:13 thimkbrick init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Oct 29 19:23:13 thimkbrick enter: Starting X server.
Oct 29 19:23:19 thimkbrick enter: Server timed out [...x8 more]
Last edited by nathan28 (2011-10-29 23:28:56)

Answer 1

Took another pass at the login manager thing again today. Just tried to re-install xorg-xkbcomp, to little apparent effect.
Logging out of ScrotWM works. Logging into Openbox (via my other user's login) works. Attempting to log out of openbox, either with the r-click logout or with $ openbox --exit, drops me to an X root window and enter does not reappear without # killall X or #telinit 3 followed by #telinit 5.
Is is possible that this is a result of the
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session openbox-session
line in the regular user .xinitrc? Otherwise I'm at a loss for ideas besides hacking the Enter code.
Mostly giving up on this for now.
Last edited by nathan28 (2011-12-26 19:04:48)