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Re: [trinity-users] TDE starts on vt8 after power outage

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 11:28:30 -0600
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> When reading the thread "Lockups after unlocking screensaver", it
> reminds me an unanswered question I had months ago.
>
> I use Trinity 3.13.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. As far as I can recall
> (years), my TDE session started on vt7 (Ctrl-Alt-F7).
> After a power outage, I restarted my box and ever since TDE starts on
> vt8 (Ctrl-Alt-F8).
> Everything works well but I would like to understand the reason of this
> vt switch.
> I searched the web for an answer with no success.
> Does someone on this list has an answer?
>
> Nothing harmful, no bug, but curiosity... is on mars now :-)
>
> midi-pascal

I'd look for stale Xorg lockfiles in /tmp; if Xorg "thinks" there's a
session already active on VT7 it will start the next one on VT8.  This
isn't an issue on boxes where /tmp is mapped to tmpfs, but I know there
are people who like to map /tmp to persistent storage so I thought I'd
mention it.

Tim
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