On Fri 03 Jul 2015 at 16:06:38 +0100, Brian Potkin wrote:
> A system has X started on tty1 with startx and a switch to tty[2-6] is
> made. A login takes place and then the terminal is exited. The user is
> returned to X rather than remaining on tty[2-6] with a login prompt. The
> user cannot easily get back to tty[2-6]. Attempts to do so lead to a
> system freeze when systemd is PID1. Under sysvinit freezing has not been
> observed to occur.
>
> Starting the server on tty[2-6] does not generally appear to lead to the
> behaviour described above. The xinit 1.3.3-1 changelog records why X
> with startx no longer brings the server up on vt7.
>
> * 10-startx-Under-Linux-start-X-on-the-current-VT.patch,
> 11-startx-Pass-vtX-as-long-as-the-user-did-not-specify-.patch: By default
> start the server on the current VT, this is necessary to avoid logind to
> see the startx session as inactive (Closes: #743015)
>
> August Karlstrom brought the issue to light at
>
> https://lists.debian.org/mn01es$4u4$1...@speranza.aioe.org
>
> There is a short discussion in the same thread.
And a longer discussion beginning at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/10/msg00603.html
The Xorg Project Team discuss the issue here
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93164
Regards,
Brian.
